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Friday, June 16, 2017
FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD ‘Neo-Nazi’ aimed to hit Turkey Point nuclear plant, Tampa murder suspect tells police
Florida National Guard headquarters in St. Augustine must work to rid the Guard of KKK, Nazis and other vile vicious varmints. FNG is a powerful force here politically, and has not yet provided any documents on the Guard being penetrated by criminally unAmerican activities, like the allegations of BRANDON RUSSELL:
Brandon Russell, a member of the National Guard and a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, was arrested after agents found bomb-making materials in his Tampa apartment.
Brandon Russell, a National Guardsman and self-described neo-Nazi, had plans to blow up power lines in the Everglades and launch explosives into the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, his roommate Devon Arthurs told police.
Prosecutors on Tuesday played portions of a recorded interrogation of Arthurs in the hours immediately after he was arrested in the killings of Jeremy Himmelman and Andrew Oneschuk in Tampa late last month. In the video, Arthurs offers a justification for the violence, claiming that Russell, the surviving roommate, was preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
“The things they were planning were horrible,” Arthurs said. “These people were not good people.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office presented the video excerpts in an effort to get U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas B. McCoun III to revoke an order granting Russell bail, arguing that he poses a danger to the community. Late Tuesday, the judge stayed the order. Russell will remain jailed while the judge reconsiders the issue.
Russell, 21, faces explosives charges after bomb-making materials were found at his Tampa Palms apartment May 19 during the murder investigation. Arthurs, separately, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in state court.
In the video, Arthurs sits beside a table in a white-walled interrogation room, his right leg resting over his left knee. He gestures with both hands as he casually described Russell’s neo-Nazi beliefs and supposed plans to commit terrorist acts.
He said Russell studied how to build nuclear weapons in school and is “somebody that literally has knowledge of how to build a nuclear bomb.”
A National Guardsman and self-described neo-Nazi, talked of plans to blow up power lines in the Everglades and launch explosives into the Turkey Point nuclear power plant, his roommate told Tampa police. The roommate, Devon Arthurs, is a suspect in the murder of two other roommates.
Emily Michot The Miami Herald
When a Tampa police detective asked Arthurs if his friends had any specific terrorist intentions, he said they had a plan to blow up power lines along Alligator Alley, the stretch of Interstate 75 linking Naples with Fort Lauderdale.
He also said they had a plan to fire mortars loaded with nuclear material into the cooling units at Turkey Point, which is located on Biscayne Bay east of Homestead. The reactors are actually cooled by a massive network of canals.
Russell said the damage would cause “a massive reactor failure” and spread “irradiated water” throughout the ocean, Arthurs told police. “Think about a BP oil spill, except it wipes out parts of the Eastern Seaboard.”
The detective asked why they wanted to do these things.
“Because they wanted to build a Fourth Reich,” Arthurs said. He said Russell idolized Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
“He said the only thing McVeigh did wrong was he didn’t put enough material into the truck to bring the whole building down.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Josephine Thomas noted during the hearing that when bomb squad members arrived at Russell’s apartment, their pagers alerted them to the presence of “two radiation sources.” The criminal complaint says those were thorium and americium, both radioactive metals.
Russell’s defense attorney, Ian Goldstein, noted that authorities have not charged him with possession of nuclear materials and questioned Arthurs’ credibility.
“Devon Arthurs is a person who just murdered two individuals, who is desperate to save himself, and, quite frankly, I think he is a few cards short of a full deck,” Goldstein said. “I hope the government brings Mr. Arthurs to the trial as their prime witness. He’s insane.”
Peter Robbins, a spokesman for Florida Power and Light, declined to comment on what was said in court. But he said the company has extensive security.
“Nuclear power plants are among the most highly protected private-sector facilities in the nation,” Robbins said. “Our plants are built with multiple layers of security and defensive features.’’
Tampa Bay Times staff writer Tony Marrero contributed to this report. Contact Dan Sullivan at dsullivan@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3386. Follow @TimesDan.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article156164119.html#storylink=cpy
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