Law enforcement officials arrested a Texas man who they say was planning a “mass casualty event,” likely at a Walmart. Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, of Kerrville, was arrested Friday “on a warrant for a terroristic threat to create public fear of serious bodily injury,” according to a statement by the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office. Several agencies, including the FBI, worked for a week to track the man who was thought to be “a threat to national security.” Investigators intercepted a message that indicated Blevins was planning a mass shooting and mentioned Walmart. They “confirmed his affiliation and networking with extremist ideologies” and determined he was capable of “following through with the threat” so they “moved immediately to arrest him,” according to the statement. He was booked into the Kerr County Jail in Kerrville, located around 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. When they arrested Blevins, authorities found weapons, ammunition and “radical ideology paraphernalia, including books, flags and handwritten documents” in his home.
via slate: Texas White Supremacist Arrested for Planning Walmart Mass Shooting
siehe auch: Neo-Nazi Was Behind Walmart Mass Shooting Plot, Group Claims. The Texas man was arrested and police confiscated guns, ammo, and extremist paraphernalia, including a T-shirt featuring the image of the neo-Nazi group that claims he was one of their own. A Texas man police say was planning a mass shooting at a Walmart appears to be connected to a neo-Nazi group that describes itself as the “extremist alternative to the 12-step program.” Kerr County Sheriff’s Office say that they have arrested Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, on a warrant for a “terroristic threat to create public fear of serious bodily injury.” The sheriff’s office said they were investigating Blevins in the week prior to his arrest and confirmed his “affiliation and networking with extremist ideologies.” (…) Members within the community have posted frequently about Blevins since his arrest. They claim he was a well-known member known as “Korb Taran”—an account that has posted images of a man who looks like Blevins and has not posted since the day of his arrest. The group has had several open discussions about the man’s activity in the group and members are currently making propaganda based around his previous posts and mugshot. The Telegram page for the group began in February. Other groups have made posts about their belief Blevins is “a fed.” In an appearance on a far-right podcast, a man going by “Korb’’ who is described as the president of the group described it as an “extremist alternative to the 12-step program, hence the syringe logo… Extremism and purpose is the only way to abstain from bad habits.”