Federal authorities have asked for a convicted white supremacist to remain behind bars, according to court documents. Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell of Conway violated the terms of his supervised release, authorities argued Friday in U.S. District Court. “Defendant has multiple admissions of drug use, including marijuana, methamphetamine, and suboxone,” documents state. “Defendant has a history of mental health concerns, a criminal history with some violence and some evidence of this propensity recently.” Group wants ‘obscene’ books removed from Alamance-Burlington schools, echoing similar moves across nation McDowell was sentenced to 33 months in prison in 2018 for planning an attack on a synagogue “in the spirit of Dylann Roof” after he met with an undercover FBI employee to buy a gun. He had previously been charged with burglary, assault and battery, drug charges, larceny and malicious injury to personal property. In 2017, prosecutors said McDowell told an undercover agent that he had not decided on a place or time for the attack, but the documents describe the scale of his plans. In one conversation, McDowell told the agent he wanted to “do something on a f* big scale and write on the f* building or whatever, ‘In the spirit of Dylann Roof.’” In another alleged conversation, McDowell said “I just be plotting it out, like, I mean you just run up there on them if they back there partying, and all, with a f* AK and rip them s**** down, and throw, a damn, something at them.” During his sentencing, a Myrtle Beach rabbi read a letter stating that McDowell caused the congregation “tremendous mental anguish and distress.”
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