He’s the third man arrested in the alleged conspiracy. Court documents paint a picture of a wildly inept plan laid out over embarrassing texts.A third man has been arrested in an alleged neo-Nazi bank robbery conspiracy. Brian Tierney, 29, of Rustburg, Virginia, was arrested last week for his involvement in an alleged plot by neo-Nazis to commit an armed robbery of a New York bank, according to the Northern District of New York U.S. Attorney. According to court documents, Tierney and two other men allegedly planned the armed bank robbery in a chat group called the “SS Screenplay Guild.” The plotting within the group chat was discussed under a razor-thin facade of making a movie. Two other men, Micheal Brown, 40, of Pennsylvania, and Luke Kenna, 43, of New York were arrested earlier in connection to the alleged conspiracy. The three all allegedly shared neo-Nazi ideologies, and the criminal complaint states “white supremacist, anti semitic, pro-Nazi ideology may have played a role in the intent to conspire to commit the bank robbery.” According to the court documents, planned robbery was to take place in Johnston, New York, on January 6. The group was acquiring tools and weapons for the job, had already planned escape routes, and surveilled the bank they were planning on hitting. At one point they even had conversations about acquiring “heavier” weapons in case they were in a shootout. Tierney went by “Woodanaz” (a likely reference to paganism) and “Manic” in the group’s communications. The court documents state Tierney offered to make fake IDs for the group with identities he stole from people in Iowa and that he had “the equipment to manufacture the fraudulent documents.” In his conversations within “SS Screenplay Guild” Tierney allegedly wrote, when discussing the $300K the group thought they could steal, “not only could I use it, I kinda need it.”
via vice: Man Going by ‘Manic’ Arrested in Bungled Neo-Nazi Bank Robbery Plot