Violent Extremists Including 2 Former Marines Facing Additional Charge of Targeting Energy Facility

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/group-ties-racially-motivated-violent-extremists-including-two-former-marines-facing

RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, Paul James Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22, were charged via a third superseding indictment obtained in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Collins and Duncan are former Marines assigned previously to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the United States.

According to the indictment, Collins, Kryscuk, Duncan, and Maurino researched, discussed, and reviewed at length a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group. The group in that attack used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation. Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk manufactured firearms while Collins stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles and had them delivered to the other defendants. During that time, Duncan gathered a library of information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins and shared that information with Kryscuk and Collins.

The indictment also alleges that the defendants discussed using homemade Thermite, a combination of metal powder and metal oxide which burns at over 4000°F to burn through and destroy power transformers. In mid-2020, Collins asked others to each purchase 50 pounds of Tannerite, a binary explosive containing aluminum powder and oxidizers, and can be used to make Thermite. In October 2020, a handwritten list of approximately one dozen intersections and places in Idaho and surrounding states was discovered in Kryscuk’s possession, including intersections and/or places containing a transformer, substations, or other component of the power grid for the northwest United States. If destroyed, the damage caused could exceed $100,000.

The defendants have also been charged, in previous indictments, with conspiring to manufacture, transport, and sell hard to obtain firearms and firearm parts in a manner that would hide these purchases from the federal government.

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1. If Convicted Of All Counts Against Them, The Defendants Face Up To 40 Years Imprisonment

Hello Nevilledog. This posting details some seriously radical ex-military defendants (!). Perhaps you might re-post this article several times over the next few days so that many more DU eyes might take notice of the intended violence expressed therein. Thank you for this posting and for your considerationals regarding additional postings.

[Nevilledog]

2. Thanks for reading it.

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3. Huh

I wonder why this news, which affects a lot of people in the United States, isn't getting any play in the popular media? *Shrug* Just another four lone wolf guys who are understandably aggrieved at their slipping status in the world.

[Nevilledog]

4. Idaho Press article

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BuffaloBillWasAFraud
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Last august, nazis in Boise Idaho stalked and hunted BLM activists; they had ghosts guns and people in their sights. The kill list still out there. Those who kept the streets, refusing to back down in the face of literal nazi terror, are an inspiration https://idahopress.com/townnews/military/additional-charges-filed-against-ex-marines-who-plotted-to-sell-guns-shoot-protesters-in-boise/article_57e430b5-415a-5e16-b6ae-b37c9fa5a462.html…
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I used to always say they were looking for a R*ttenhouse to pull the trigger on us here.

It always felt like there were always unhinged folks with bigass guns harassing our events, as I've demonstrated time and again.

They found shooters. They let them come after us.

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8:31 AM · Aug 21, 2021

https://www.idahopress.com/townnews/military/additional-charges-filed-against-ex-marines-who-plotted-to-sell-guns-shoot-protesters-in-boise/article_57e430b5-415a-5e16-b6ae-b37c9fa5a462.html

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Prosecutors said the four men researched and discussed a previous attack on a power grid by an unknown group which used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation, the news release said. Authorities have not said where that attack occurred.

Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk manufactured firearms while Collins — who was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina — stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles and had them delivered to the other defendants, prosecutors said. During that time, Duncan gathered information on firearms, explosives and nerve toxins and shared it with Kryscuk and Collins.

The indictment also says the men discussed using a homemade combination of metal powder and metal oxide, which burns at over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,200 degrees Celsius), to burn through and destroy power transformers.

In mid-2020, Collins asked others to each purchase 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of an explosive, authorities said. In October 2020, a handwritten list of approximately one dozen intersections and places in Idaho and surrounding states was discovered in Kryscuk’s possession, including locations of transformers, substations or other components of the power grid for the northwest U.S.

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