Man has plea deal over neo-Nazi group's 'swatting' calls

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
Updated 5:18 pm CDT, Monday, April 13, 2020



Photo: AP
This photo provided by the Alexandria, Va., Sheriff’s Office shows John William Kirby Kelley, 19, who was arrested in January 2020. Kelley is accused of coordinating with neo-Nazi group members to harass and endanger their targets by calling in bogus police emergencies. (Alexandria Sheriff’s Office via AP)

A former Virginia college student has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve a charge that he coordinated with neo-Nazi group members to harass and endanger their targets by calling in bogus police emergencies.

John William Kirby Kelley, 19, has signed a plea agreement and has a plea hearing set for May 8, prosecutors said in a court filing Saturday. The filing doesn’t specify any terms of the deal.

Kelley was arrested in January on a charge of conspiring to make threats to injure. He hasn’t been indicted in connection with the alleged plot to make and videotape dozens of “swatting” calls to police to instigate an aggressive response by officers.

Prosecutors in a court filing called it "one of the most far-reaching and prolific swatting conspiracies known to law enforcement." The swatting calls included a November 2018 bomb threat against a predominantly African American church in Alexandria, Virginia, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit. In response to another swatting call last November against a vape shop, law enforcement in New Hope, Pennsylvania, issued a “shelter in place” order for the small town.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Man-has-plea-deal-over-neo-Nazi-group-s-15197581.php

[Thomas Hurt]

1. the Ubermensch in all his glory....(smh)

[BigOleDummy]

15. Indeed

That was my very first thought too lol. "THIS" is what those scumbags think is "the master race"?!? If it wasn't so sad it would be even funnier

[montana_hazeleyes]

2. Why do these fuckers always

sooooooo look the part! Right from central casting.

[Jeebo]

3. What does this have to do with the title of this thread?

This has nothing to do with McDonald's workers suing McDonald's restaurants in Florida for harassment.

-- Ron

[hedda_foil]

9. You clicked the wrong OP.

[IronLionZion]

4. The master race is always as blonde as Hitler

slim as Goring, tall as Goebbels, wise as Drumpf

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[Dem2theMax]

5. Former college student?

How the heck did that get into college?

[TygrBright]

6. ::koff:: libertyuniversity ::koff:: n/t

[Dem2theMax]

7. ...

[Kaiserguy]

13. Or Trump University

since both offer such a great education opportunity.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

10. Jug-eared asshole.

[PatrickforO]

11. Only one deal possible that actually offers justice.

At least 20 years behind bars. And if someone died - life without parole.

[Progressive Jones]

12. He may be rolling over on his nazi scum associates. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Hirsute uncouth undisciplined uncivilized

[ret5hd]

16. Man! That is one genetically superior specimen!!!

[Historic NY]

17. You must have missed the 13yr old uberfurher that has been directing these morons.

[link:https://time.com/5820178/neo-nazi-group-estonia-commander-child/|]

[Nitram]

18. That's a man?

[vercetti2021]

19. Why do all these little Nazis look the same?

Superior race my ass more like the most fucked-up inbred dumbasses to walk the earth.