A Coast Guard Lieutenant Accused Of Plotting Of A White Supremacist Attack Will Be Held Pending Trial
Weapons and ammunition federal agents say they found in Christopher Paul Hasson's home.
Hasson wasn't charged with offenses directly related to the government's allegations that he was planning a mass attack, but Hazel said the evidence and circumstances around Hasson's possession of more than a dozen firearms weighed"heavily" in favor of detention. Hasson is charged with illegally possessing firearms silencers, possessing firearms while using or addicted to a controlled substance, and possessing a controlled substance.
Hasson was in court for the hearing, wearing a maroon, short-sleeved jail uniform and white sneakers. His wife was in the gallery, and she did not speak with reporters as she left the courtroom. Hasson can appeal Hazel's detention order; his lawyer Elizabeth Oyer declined to comment after the hearing.
Oyer argued Monday that prosecutors were asking to hold Hasson based on a"gut feeling." She said the government had been surveilling Hasson for months at home and at work before his arrest, and didn't observe him acting on what he was looking at online. Referring to the Breivik manifesto, she said it wasn't unlawful to read that type of material or to do Google searches and that it was common for people"in this day and age" to list political enemies.
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