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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Nov 30 18:50:22 2015 Washington County teen snared by anti-terrorism unitFBI: Teen boasted of "destroying the government" By Brendan J. Lyons Published 5:42 pm, Monday, November 30, 2015 A Washington County teenager who allegedly formed a "hit squad" and boasted of killing Jewish and black people and "destroying the government" has been indicted on federal weapons charges. Shane Robert Smith, 18, of Whitehall has been in federal custody since August after investigators assigned to a federal anti-terrorism task force sold him a Mac 10 machine gun, an M16 military-grade assault rifle, a gun silencer, a handgun and 120 rounds of "green tip" armour-pierceing rounds, according to a federal complaint. The investigation began in May 2014 when Smith allegedly sent an email to a Switzerland-based message service seeking to order an assault rifle capable of firing as a machine gun. Beginning in October 2014, according to the federal complaint, Smith set up accounts on VK, a Russian social media site similar to Facebook and listed his intersts as "guns, gun smithing, building bombs, knives, guerilla warfare, preserving my race and folk, and destroying the government." About a month after the investigation began, Smith was arrested by the State Police in June 2014 and charged with felony criminal mischief for allegedly spray-painting racist terms and swastikas on a Route 12 carwash in Whitehall, according to a report in the Post Star of Glens Falls. In early January, Smith told an inmate at the Washington County Jail that he had access to body armor, gas masks and fully automatic assault rifles that he fired at an undisclosed location in Whitehall. It's unclear if Smith was being held in the jail or visiting the inmate. A federal complaint states Smith tried to recruit the inmate, who was not identified, to help steal firearms from a gun shop in Granville. Later that month, probation officers searched Smith's Whitehall residence and discovered body-armor kits, a combat helmet, hatchet and World War II-era darts. Four months later, a FBI confidential source who is a retired law enforcement officer contacted Smith through the Russian social media site and asked the teenager about the type of gun he was seeking and what he planned to do with it. Smith allegedly said he and about six others in his "group," who were in their 20s, 30s and 40s, were seeking to purchase firearms, ammunition and grenades. "What I'm doing is gonna rock and roll it and I have a suppressor for a Mac 10 I fabbed in my shop but its gonne be used to execute kikes, coons, and get money for the crew," according to a message attributed to Smith in federal court records. Smith was arrested on Aug. 6 after law enforcement officials say he purchased the firearms and other materials for $200 and "some diamonds." The indictment announced Monday by the U.S. Attorney's office in Albany charges Smith with two count of illegal possession of a machine gun and one count of possession of an unregistered firearm (silencer). Smith faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted. blyons@timesunion.com • 518-454-5547 • @brendan_lyonstu |
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