An extremist group that includes former U.S. Marines were hit with a third superseding indictment, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.”Today, Paul James Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22, were charged via a third superseding indictment obtained in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Collins and Duncan are former Marines assigned previously to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the United States,” prosecutors announced. Members of the group were previously charged for a gun-running scheme to create a “modern day SS.” “The defendants have also been charged, in previous indictments, with conspiring to manufacture, transport, and sell hard to obtain firearms and firearm parts in a manner that would hide these purchases from the federal government,” prosecutors explained. “The previous indictments allege that Collins and Kryscuk were members of and made multiple posts on the ‘Iron March’ forum, a gathering point for young neo-Nazis to organize and recruit for extremist organizations, until the forum was closed in late 2017. Collins and Kryscuk met through the forum and expanded their group using an encrypted messaging application as an alternate means of communication outside of the forum. Collins and Kryscuk recruited additional members, including Duncan, Hermanson, and Maurino, and conducted training, including a live-fire training in the desert near Boise.”
via rawstory: Ex-Marines who met on neo-Nazi forum charged with conspiracy for planning power grid attacks: DOJ
siehe auch: Two former Lejeune Marines indicted in alleged neo-Nazi plot to target energy infrastructure. Two former Camp Lejeune Marines are among four people facing federal charges they planned to attack energy facilities in the U.S. North Carolina’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District announced Friday indictments against Paul Kryscuk, 35, Liam Collins, 21, Jordan Duncan, 26, and Joseph Maurino, 22. We’re told that Collins and Duncan are former Marines who were assigned to Camp Lejeune. Officials said the four men are charged with conspiracy to damage the property of an energy facility in the U.S. The indictment said that the four men researched at length a previous attack on the power grid that saw a group use assault-style rifles to try to explode a power substation. “Between 2017 and 2020, Kryscuk manufactured firearms while Collins stole military gear, including magazines for assault-style rifles and had them delivered to the other defendants,” investigators said, “During that time, Duncan gathered a library of information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins and shared that information with Kryscuk and Collins.” The indictment also alleges the men discussed using thermite, which burns at over 4000*F, to burn through and destroy power transformers.