Another Bundy wanna be

[Big Fin]

Not even sure what to say about these ass clowns. They can be thankful I'm not on the jury.


http://www.sltrib.com/home/4040455-155/charges-utah-head-of-citizen-militia

Charges: Utah head of militia tried to detonate bomb at BLM facility in Arizona
By MATTHEW PIPER | The Salt Lake Tribune connect
First Published 6 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

Federal prosecutors say a Tooele County man placed a pipe bomb against the door of a BLM cabin and pushed the button on a remote detonator multiple times, with no result.

His mistake? He'd unwittingly assigned an undercover FBI agent to build the bomb.

William Keebler, 57, of Stockton, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Nephi and appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court, charged by federal prosecutors with attempting to blow up federal property at an Arizona Strip BLM facility that he had allegedly scouted with Robert LaVoy Finicum.

Keebler is being held in Salt Lake County jail and will have a June 29 detention hearing. He faces five to 20 years in a federal prison if convicted of the charge.

Charging documents say Keebler is the commander of a citizen militia group headquartered in Stockton. He was present at the April 2014 standoff with federal land administrators near the Bunkerville, Nev. ranch of Cliven Bundy, and was an associate of Finicum, who was killed in late January by Oregon state police after he tried to avoid their roadblock in eastern Oregon amid an occupation of a federal wildlife refuge. The Tribune wrote about Keebler in December 2011 when he worked as an outfitter guiding coyote sport hunters.

FBI undercover employees became members of Keebler's "Patriots Defense Force," charging documents say, and trained for an "anti-government action" where, Keebler told members, they would be "going on the offensive."

Keebler's group scouted the BLM office in the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City as a potential target but found it unsuitable due to the commercial and homeless activity, charging documents state.

Prosecutors allege that Keebler told the group it would target BLM facilities in "the middle of nowhere," damaging vehicles and buildings. He asked a militia member — who happened to be an FBI undercover employee — to build an explosive device

In April, the militia member showed him a video of a 6-inch pipe bomb blowing up office furniture in the mountains of southern Utah. Keebler asked the militia member to make more of those bombs, saying he hoped to target a BLM cabin in Mount Trumbull, Ariz, that he had visited with Finicum for reconnaissance in October 2015.

He wanted two bombs — one that he would detonate near one of the cabins at the Mount Trumbull facility and the other to use against law enforcement if they were stopped driving to or from Mount Trumbull.

Keebler planted the device — which unknown to him was inert — late Tuesday. He tried multiple times to remotely detonate the device, charging documents state, before departing. He was arrested Wednesday morning in Nephi by the FBI.

According to the charging documents: "Keebler made it clear he didn't plan on blowing people up for now, but he wanted his group to be prepared to escalate things, and take people out if necessary."

West Valley resident Pete Olson attended Keebler's initial court appearance Thursday, having met Keebler at Finicum's early-February funeral in Kanab.

Olson said he didn't know Keebler to have any involvement with explosives. Rather, Olson said, Keebler tried to educate people about what he felt was an unconstitutional use of power by the federal government.

"Bill's always been a good, friendly guy," Olson said. "Many people are upset with the current direction of the government."

A news release says the FBI's Salt Lake City Joint Terrorism Task Force led the investigation with help from the FBI in Phoenix, BLM law enforcement and local law enforcement.

Mount Trumbull is near the BLM grazing allotment owned by Finicum, known as Tuckup.

Finicum was fined $12,000 after his cattle were found last August to be grazing on the land before the permitted season. His wife, Jeanette, recently said she hasn't determined how to proceed, but the Finicum cattle were still grazing on the allotment in May, past the dates allowed by their permit. Jeanette Finicum could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday.

 

[Southern Elk]

He is a terrorist and should be treated as such.

 

[jryoung]

Put that effer on a flight to Cuba.

 

[hank4elk]

off him. end of story.

 

[u1299]

I've often heard politicians say, usually about the politician from the opposing party who is upset the election didn't go his or her way, "So, are you saying the American people are stupid?"

In some cases Yes, they are stupid, and this guy proves it.

 

[texashunting2015]

Just can't believe the sentence could be as little as 5 years. You plant a bomb that is minimum life in prison!

 

[LopeHunter]

20 years most likely. No early release in fed pen. Unless gets sentence commuted by Governor or President. Is 57 so will be 77. Seems fair. Life expectancy of 57 y.o. is 24 more years. Virtual life sentence. Choices are important. Blowing up a cabin is not exactly taking the fight into the middle of the Death Star they imagine is approaching their lifestyle. Figure they round up another dozen of associates at 5 years each on accessory before the fact. Wing nuts.

 

[BuzzH]

These guys are truly unbelievable...I would throw him in jail for life.

I have spent quite a bit of time at Mount Trumbull, at the very facility that the wingnut was going to blow up. Its a really neat place, along with several of the other facilities on the strip.

Why someone would want to blow those up is a mystery. I wonder how much of the vandalism that happens out there is due to tools like this guy, I bet most of it.

The only thing the guy got right, is that all of the facilities on the strip are "out in the middle of nowhere".

Neat place, very remote, and still not safe from A-holes. Sad.

 

[duckhunt]

What is the deal with these people. Freaks