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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 02:01 PM Jan 2013

Another American Patriot With Guns: 'Ex-Marine' With 'Right-Wing' Manifesto Built Bombs for Cocaine,

'Ex-Marine' With 'Right-Wing' Manifesto Built Bombs for Cocaine, Hoarded Assault Weapons



A Colorado man, who said that he was an ex-Marine and claimed a "right-wing declaration of independence/constitutionalist political manifesto," built improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to trade for cocaine and hoarded several military-style assault weapons that may have been converted to machine guns, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.

According to an affidavit, federal agents with the Bureau of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home of Richard Lawrence Sandberg in Jefferson County on Thursday after he provided an undercover agent with homemade bombs.

After receiving a tip from a Denver Police Department detective, ATF Special Agent Shane Abraham contacted Sandberg and told him he needed an explosive device to protect a building. Sandberg, who claimed to be "former Special Ops Recon SS Marine Corps," allegedly said that he was in possession of "incendiary" or "napalm" explosives, but the devices were wrong for the job. The suspect then recommended a "frag" -- or fragmentation device -- and suggested that he could provide something that was also waterproof.

Sandberg claimed that the kill zone for his "frags" was 20-meters and the hurt zone was 60-meters, the affidavit said. He called his IEDs "homemade shit" that were built with materials from Home Depot and were "life or death." The suspect said that he also had 18 military-grade M67 fragmentation hand grenades, but would only sell five.

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Another American Patriot With Guns: 'Ex-Marine' With 'Right-Wing' Manifesto Built Bombs for Cocaine, (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP
So have any of the coke dealers that traded for bombs EC Jan 2013 #1
wait... what?! this guy was fully prepared to stave off attack from the feds.. frylock Jan 2013 #2

EC

(12,287 posts)
1. So have any of the coke dealers that traded for bombs
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 04:06 PM
Jan 2013

used them? I haven't heard of anything, any one hear? Are they stockpiling bombs now?

frylock

(34,825 posts)
2. wait... what?! this guy was fully prepared to stave off attack from the feds..
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 04:26 PM
Jan 2013

yet he was still apprehended? i'm not buying that at all. I've been assured that we need AR-15s and 30 rd mags to prevent this very thing from happening. i'm confused.

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