Federal agents made extensive recordings of Fairbanks militia members plotting to kill or kidnap judges and Alaska State Troopers and burn their houses, according to documents filed in court Friday.
Four leaders of the Fairbanks-based Alaska Peacekeeper's Militia -- Francis "Schaeffer" Cox, 26, Lonnie Vernon, 55, his wife Karen Vernon, 64, and Coleman Barney, 36 -- are charged with conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping and arson. They are also charged with hindering prosecution and possession of illegal weapons.
The four are in jail in Fairbanks. Bail for Cox was set at $3 million. Barney and Karen and Lonnie Vernon were each held on $2 million bail.
Lonnie Vernon called the 17-page criminal complaint "hearsay on paper," according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Vernon is charged in a separate federal case for threatening the lives of a federal judge and one of his family members, according to the federal indictment.
http://www.adn.com/2011/03/11/175026...d-to-kill.html
Four leaders of the Fairbanks-based Alaska Peacekeeper's Militia -- Francis "Schaeffer" Cox, 26, Lonnie Vernon, 55, his wife Karen Vernon, 64, and Coleman Barney, 36 -- are charged with conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping and arson. They are also charged with hindering prosecution and possession of illegal weapons.
The four are in jail in Fairbanks. Bail for Cox was set at $3 million. Barney and Karen and Lonnie Vernon were each held on $2 million bail.
Lonnie Vernon called the 17-page criminal complaint "hearsay on paper," according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Vernon is charged in a separate federal case for threatening the lives of a federal judge and one of his family members, according to the federal indictment.
http://www.adn.com/2011/03/11/175026...d-to-kill.html
remember a few years back when the Dept of Homeland Security released that memo about the potential for far right wing terrorism and crime....
and everyone called it a political stunt and smeared Napolitano....
just another example of how wrong DHS was, huh ?
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