LAS VEGAS (AP)– 3 Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of conservative extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been jailed on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence throughout recent protests in Las Vegas
Federal prosecutors state the three white guys with U.S. military experience are implicated of conspiring to carry out a strategy that started in April in conjunction with demonstrations to resume businesses closed since of the coronavirus.
More just recently, they looked for to take advantage of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis after a white officer pressed his knee into his neck for numerous minutes even after he stopped moving and advocating air, prosecutors stated.
The 3 men were jailed Saturday on the way to a protest in downtown Las Vegas after filling gas cans at a parking area and making Molotov cocktails in glass bottles, according to a copy of the criminal grievance acquired by The Associated Press.
” People have a right to in harmony oppose. These guys are agitators and instigators. Their point was to pirate the demonstrations into violence,” Nicholas Trutanich, U.S. attorney in Nevada, told AP. He referred to what he called “real and genuine outrage” over Floyd’s death.
The problem submitted in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Wednesday stated they self-identified as part of the “boogaloo” movement, which U.S. prosecutors stated in the document is “a term utilized by extremists to represent coming civil war and/or fall of civilization.”
Stephen T. Parshall, 35, Andrew T. Lynam Jr., 23, and William L. Loomis, 40, were being held on $1 million bond each in the Clark County jail Wednesday, according to court records. Lynam is from suburban Henderson and the others are from Las Vegas.
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