A U.S. soldier is accused of giving sensitive information on U.S. troop movements to a satanic white-supremacist group as part of a criminal conspiracy to murder U.S. military service members and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization
Federal prosecutors in New York accused a U.S. soldier of giving sensitive information on U.S. troop movements to a satanic white-supremacist group as part of a criminal conspiracy to murder U.S. military service members and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The indictment alleges that Melzer messaged members of O9A in mid-May through the “RapeWaffen” channel on the encrypted Telegram messaging app and sent them sensitive information about his unit’s upcoming deployment to Turkey, where they were preparing to guard U.S. military facilities. According to the indictment, one of Melzer’s interlocutors has been an FBI informant since last month.
Melzer allegedly confessed to his role in the conspiracy during an interview with law enforcement on May 30, and prosecutors say he “declared himself to be a traitor against the United States whose conduct was tantamount to treason.” Last year, an active-duty Coast Guard lieutenant, Christopher Hasson, stockpiled an arsenal for a race war; he received a 13-year prison sentence. The closest antecedent to what Melzer is accused of may be Jarrett William Smith, a U.S. soldier who discussed constructing homemade bombs with white supremacists on Facebook. Smith pleaded guilty in February.
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