F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm
They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said.
No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram
The guy told his neighbour in October he was planning an attack and it took the feds 2 more months and another complaint to do a search?
Sometimes they put a dude under surveillance and only act when a threat seems imminent, such as he's stuffing bombs into a bag, searching a location in maps, and gassing up the car.
They do this for due diligence and also to levy the highest possible charges against the suspect.
You'd be surprised how little time you can get for just owning a pile of pipe bombs. Acting with intent to use pipe bombs to do murder against a specific target gets you way more time, hence the feds aim for the sweet spot just before a major violence occurs, instead of nabbing the dude when he goes to the Ag store to get his first bag of Ammonium nitrate
I'd bet that who or what the attack was planned for had something to do with that.
Yes, ideally it would be days, not months, but realistically 2 months is not that bad. There are so many threats, reports, etc. Ideally the FBI could investigate every possible threat, but there are too many false threats. I think it makes sense, the 2 reports part. I person says it, just one of thousands of reports daily, 2 reports, there is much higher likelihood of there being something.
For an example of how many threats,
Where I live, it's not a large city, but the school district gets a threat or report agianst a school about once a week. Boy who cried wolf, they can't treat everyone as legitimate, at best they notify parents.
Of course these are symptoms of systematic government and societal problems, after all I don't know any other "First world country", we have to drill preschoolers and thier teachers active shooter drills as much as fire and earthquakes.
It's possible they were hoping to find out if he truly had accomplices and had him under surveillance
They need to make sure they have enough for a rock solid warrant/arrest.
Wouldn't want someone like that to get off on a technicality.
rookie mistake, I always label my pipe bombs "Non-Lethal"
"For training purposes and lawful hunting only."
paint them blue.
Thought this would be some cop bullshit.
"He had over 2,000 rounds of ammo!" or some such crap. Nah. This guy was loaded for bear.
My god, the charges they gonna stack on this idiot.
Norfolk
I hope Groverhaus is OK.
Detached garage
Phew!
No Lives Matter was supposed to be dark humor, not something for people to start an organization around.
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Edit: Lol. Nvm then, I guess most of Lemmy didn't understand the reference.
I got it, and until you mentioned Gabbard thought it was true.
Largest cache... a backpack...? So they never found more because they failed to stop them after getting a tip 2 months prior to the attack?
Article states they found over 150 in a detached garage, and in his bedroom was a backpack stuffed with explosives.
Not just the backpack:
When investigators searched his 20-acre property, in Isle of Wight County, they found in a detached garage more than 150 explosive devices — mostly pipe bombs, some of them labeled “lethal,” prosecutors said.
It takes a special kind of person to label pipe bombs as lethal
