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Wednesday 10 January 2018

Neo-Nazi leader gets 5 years for having explosives

This June 7, 2017 photo shows Brandon Russell. The neo-Nazi tember to possession of an Nazi group. Atomwaffen is
unregistered destructive German for “atomic weap-
group leader was sentenced to five years in federal prison device and improper stor- on.” On Tuesday, prosecu-
age of explosive materi- tors showed a photo of Rus-
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. als. This was his first arrest, sell’s car, which had flyers
something the judge took that said, “Don’t prepare
(Pinellas County SO/AP) into account during sen- for exams, prepare for a
tencing. race war.” Russell also kept
By TAMARA LUSH protect the public — while The case came to light in a framed photo of Okla-
May of 2017, when Tampa homa City bomber Timo-
Associated Press hoping Russell doesn’t fall police were called to an thy McVeigh in his room
apartment north of down- and read books like Mein
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Federal in with the wrong group of town. There, they found Kampf and The Turner Dia-
two dead men. A room- ries. An FBI agent testified
prosecutors said Brandon people while in prison. mate of one of the men sat that both are reading sta-
outside in fatigues, crying. ples of white supremacist
Russell is a dangerous Neo- “It’s a difficult case,” said That turned out to be Rus- extremists.
sell. But the case got stranger
Nazi leader who had lethal U.S. District Judge Susan A fourth roommate, Devon as investigators probed.
Arthurs, was arrested soon Arthurs allegedly told de-
bomb-making materials in Bucklew to the defen- after and charged with tectives he killed his room-
shooting and killing Andrew mates for teasing him
his Florida apartment. dant, who wore orange jail Oneschuk and Jeremy Him- about his recent conver-
melman. sion to Islam. He also said
His mother and grand- clothes and appeared to Russell wasn’t charged in he killed his roommates to
the killings, and Arthurs said thwart a terrorist attack by
mother called him a fol- have a bloom of acne on Russell had nothing to do Atomwaffen. He claimed
with the deaths. But while Russell had materials in the
lower who liked to please his neck. “You seem like a detectives investigated, house “to kill civilians and
they discovered a stash of target locations like power
his friends. very smart young man.” highly explosive materials lines, nuclear reactors, and
in the apartment, and a synagogues,” prosecutors
At the end of a four-hour Russell, 22, is a member of cache of Neo-Nazi signs, said.
posters, books and flags. “I prevented the deaths
court hearing Tuesday, a the Florida National Guard Russell was in the Florida of a lot of people,” Arthurs
National Guard and had said in a rambling state-
federal judge in Tampa sen- and a dual citizen of both attended the University of ment.
South Florida. Asked why his roommates
tenced Russell to five years the U.S. and The Bahamas. Investigators later found would plan such an attack,
that Russell and Arthurs he responded, “Because
in prison, saying she has to He pleaded guilty in Sep- were co-founder of Atom- they want to build a Fourth
waffen Divsision, a Neo- Reich.” q

New York Police say they’ve cracked 1994 rape case

By COLLEEN LONG This Sept. 29, 2016 photo shows rally,” McAlary wrote in a ogy,” Garbus said. “This is a
Associated Press James Edward Webb, a serial column called “Rape hoax woman who had to live for
NEW YORK (AP) — Detec- rapist serving 75 years to life in the real crime.” He per- 23 years with a false accu-
tives said Tuesday they prison. Police say they have sisted even after DNA was sation of lying, with threats
have cracked a 1994 rape new DNA tests linking Webb discovered, writing three to the newspaper that she
case that an acclaimed with the 1994 rape of a 21- columns. The last column’s was about to be arrested.
newspaper columnist in- year old woman in Brooklyn’s headline was: “I’m right, It’s horrific.”
famously claimed was a Prospect Park in New York. but that’s no reason to The Daily News didn’t im-
hoax. cheer.” The woman sued mediately respond to a
A woman was walk- (NY DOC via AP) McAlary for libel, but a request for comment Tues-
ing home with groceries judge dismissed the case in day. Chief of Detectives
through Brooklyn’s Pros- to bolster a speech she was part because McAlary had Robert Boyce said the
pect Park when she was to give at a rally about vio- been relying on informa- woman wept when de-
dragged into the bushes lence against lesbians. tion from police. An attor- tectives recently told her
and raped on April 26, “The woman, who will prob- ney who represented the they’d found a DNA match
1994. She gave police a ably end up being arrested Daily News and McAlary to a suspect in her rape.
detailed description of her herself, invented the crime, said then McAlary’s report- “You can imagine how
attacker. Police made a they said, to promote her ing had been “vindicated” emotional she was,” Boyce
sketch, and DNA evidence and it was police who “got said. “I think my detectives
was recovered, but no ar- some stuff wrong.” McAlary cried with her.”
rests were made. died in 1998 at age 41. He said cold-case detec-
Daily News columnist Mike The woman’s attorney, tives have been going
McAlary wrote at the time Martin Garbus, said Tues- through unsolved stranger
that he heard from un- day she’s owed an apol- rapes to see what evidence
named police sources that ogy. “The Daily News owes they had on file and what
the woman invented her her an apology. I think the they can test using more
story because she wanted police owe her an apol- up-to-date methods.q