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Fri Apr 29, 2016, 01:05 AM Apr 2016

Medford man with pipe bombs had threatened Obama, FBI says (OR)

By Mark Freeman
Mail Tribune
Posted Apr. 28, 2016 at 6:25 PM
Updated at 9:01 PM

... John Martin Roos, 61, was arrested at his residence off Poplar Drive by Medford police and FBI agents who said they found several pipe bombs there.

Roos stated in Facebook postings as recently as April 21 that the FBI and Secret Service visited him in March to discuss his threats to shoot Obama ...

"I guess you can't tell the world you hate Obama so much you will shoot him," Roos also wrote in an April 11 post. "Silly me. Oh well now you guys get the kinder softer John not LOL" ...

In a Jan. 31 Facebook post, Roos berated the FBI over the arrest of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers, writing, "We will snipe them with hunting rifles everywhere" ...


http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20160428/NEWS/160429552

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