List of Atomwaffen Division members in the United States who faced criminal charges
While it was determined that Russell was not involved in the homicides and was released, the deaths drew investigators' attention to a large stash of explosives at the same location.
HMTD has been used to make improvised explosive devices by groups such as al-Qaeda, and ammonium nitrate and nitromethane were used by Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing.
"[8] In September 2017, Russell pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device and illegally storing explosives in federal court; in January 2018, he was sentenced to five years in prison for those crimes.
On the second day of the rally, he assaulted Emily Gorcenski, a transgender woman,[14] with a modified version of the Confederate flag that incorporated the neo-Nazi Black Sun symbol in its center, and he even bragged about the beating in private chats under the alias of "VasillistheGreek": "So to sum it up what I did Friday, dropped kicked that tranny that made video crying", "Today cracked 3 skulls open with virtually no damage to myself", and "I drop kicked Emily Gorcenski".
[15] Pistolis had promoted the Unite the Right rally on Twitter and posted an image of a car running over a left-winger with the caption "Good Night, Left Side".
[16][17][18] Although Pistolis denied that he participated in the rally or committed a violent act, he was later investigated by the United States Marine Corps and court-martialed,[15] and in June 2018, he was imprisoned and reduced in rank for disobeying orders and making false statements.
[19] Pistolis was charged in Albemarle County with "using fire to racially intimidate", a Virginia anti-KKK cross burning statute and was arrested on September 5, 2024.
In court, Federal prosecutors filings noted that the brothers may have known about the attack and that they openly admired McVeigh, Dylann Roof, Charlie Manson and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and wanted to kill Jews and other minorities.
[21][22][23] Jeffrey Clark pleaded guilty to the gun charges and was sentenced to time served since his arrest by the FBI, followed by three years of supervised release.
He was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography after the authorities uncovered videos of young girls being raped on his phone during the investigation.
"[26][25] FBI Special Agent Christopher Combs stated that the evidence "demonstrated the defendant's fixation with committing barbaric and inhumane acts of violence against children and others".
Climo was originally in contact with the Baltic branch Feuerkrieg before joining the main American organization in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he started planning the attack.
The main leader of the Las Vegas cell of Atomwaffen Division had suggested blowing up natural gas pipe lines with thermite, and several jars of the substance were found in Climo's apartment during the raid.
In group chat text messages, Thomasberg talked about a racially motivated shooting he committed and discussed in length about his use of LSD.
It was also revealed that Thomasberg had given armed training to the man who shot and killed Bao Hung Van in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2018.
[36] On September 23, 2019, Specialist[37] Jarrett William Smith, 24, of Fort Riley, Kansas, was charged with distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
[42][43] On November 4, 2019, Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh, 23, was riding in a car driven by Kaleb Cole, 24, when it was stopped by the police in Garza County, Texas.
During the detention hearing the court also heard a recording of a phone call in which Bruce-Umbaugh told the deputies were lucky they caught him off guard or he would have "shot the pigs".
The FBI had sought an Extreme Risk Protection Order against Cole and seized his cache of weapons which included five assault rifles, a shotgun and pistols in October 2019.
[53] On February 26, 2020, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested five senior members of Atomwaffen in a large operation spanning multiple states.
An investigative reporter, Chris Ingalls with KING-TV in Seattle, moved his family out of their home and told "I'll be looking over my shoulder for a long time".
In addition to these charges, Kaleb Cole had an arrest warrant for violating his Extreme Risk Protection Order when he was caught in a car containing assault rifles and a large amount of ammunition with Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh in November 2019.
Arthurs was arrested following a hostage situation, during which he allegedly told police that he shot 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman and 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk earlier that day.
[71][72] In December 2019, several experts testified that Arthurs has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder among other conditions, experiences hallucinations and believes he can communicate with the dead.
The police went through his chat history and discovered messages from Woodward to his neo-Nazi friends where he wrote that he was baiting gay men and discussed a previous victim.
[81] According to chat logs subsequently published by ProPublica, one member of Atomwaffen Division wrote of the killing "I love this" and another praised Woodward as a "one man gay Jew wrecking crew".
According to the indictment; "[a] video shows the four participants outfitted in Atomwaffen masks giving the 'Heil Hitler' sign, beneath the image of a black sun.
Law enforcement first became aware of Harrington after a concerned citizen told the Troup County Sheriff's Office that they were worried about his "erratic behavior."
The citizen informed law enforcement that Harrington possessed illegal weapons, was infatuated with mass killers, and was identified as a member of the Atomwaffen Division.
According to the FBI Wilson had at first considered bombing a mosque or a synagogue, but with the coronavirus crisis he decided to accelerate his plans and ultimately settled on a hospital "targeting a facility that is providing critical medical care in today's environment...in an attempt to cause severe harm and mass casualties."
