Federal authorities have compiled almost 60 pages of information on the men since July, it includes allegations that Litteral planned to makes explosives out of tennis balls covered in nails and coffee cans filled with ball bearings. Litteral and Campbell had for several months begun collecting other military gear like radios with throat microphones, grenades, armored vests, ammo and assault rifles.
Campbell reportedly stated that he and Litteral had a base camp on 99 acres of land in Clover, South Carolina, and had intended “to booby-trap the camp and draw government forces into the camp and kill them,” according to court records. Barker later joined the two men, bringing in materials to make pipe bombs, investigators said.
The FBI began its investigation in mid-June after receiving a tip about Litteral and Barker attempting to make homemade explosives, and later began investigating Campbell based on similar information that he was attempting to reconstruct grenades.Litteral was quoted in the documents calling his planned homemade explosives “game changers,” and authorities allege he planned to test the devices with Barker in Shelby, North Carolina.
The federal conspiracy charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. In addition, Campbell has been charged with a separate firearms charge punishable by 10 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
In addition to the FBI, agencies assisting in the investigation include the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Air Marshal Service as well as local police in Charlotte, Belmont, Mount Holly and Gastonia.
The men will remain in federal custody pending the outcome of detention hearings scheduled for Thursday. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys.
Source: ap.org
First conspiracy to commit murder is not a “new” law and it is not something that is defensible. I don’t care what vague justification anyone tries to apply to the situation, the simple facts of this case are enough to lock these people up far a long time. They plotted to kill law enforcement. As to your question about the law being my compass for morality, it should be for you as well. These nitwits were standing up for their constitutional rights I think, at least that is what the apologists on this thread are trying to use to justify their actions, and that is the same thing. They want to stand up for their lawful rights, but they do it by breaking the law….huh, makes sense to me. Minor things are one thing, but murder is way to far over the line to be able to be justified by anyone. You want to stockpile weapons to defend yourself fine, buildup a food and water supply to get you through any emergency situation then that’s fine also, but these morons decided to go way to far. It is simple
Obama breaks the law all the time. So does Hillary.Their leaven a lot of dead bodies in their wake.
Bwhaaaaa , you people need some tin foil hats…Keeps out Obamrays. …..
All the government has to do is set up people as terrorists and The Unpatriotic act they can hold a person as long as they want , they sold the people that law to protect us from terrorism when in reality that law is more against us then it’s for us . I remember distinctly they said surveillance was for overseas communications only , now we know different. The government provided local police with military grade equipment and now they want to take it away now that many police said they won’t uphold laws disarming the people , the govt thought they had all the police in their pocket and they thought wrong and will remove this equipment so it’s not used against their agenda. The government breaks the law in a daily basis with the latest example is voting down a law on illegal alien felons and defunding sanctuary cities but we have to follow the laws ,,we’re all a bunch of slaves already and it’s only going to get worse
You sir hit the nail on the head…
This is more of that buffoon in the White House. It is easy enough to beat DONT TELL PEOPLE YOU ARE STOCK PILING!!!!
What did they arrest them on then says in our constitution we are aloud to overthrow a tirant goverment like we are in right now goverment posins its ppl falsely imprisons ppl kills women and children all around the world
BUT, It’s O.K. for the federal government to stockpile over 2500 Fully automatic AK-47’s and 6 billion of hollow point rounds , which are illegal to use in war according to the Geneva convention….where are they going to be used ?
Don’t mess with our local law enforcement please. Local law enforcement are here to help us
Read the article, the bomb making is where they cross the line. The #2A covers guns not bombs. I say prep but don’t break the law.