An FBI tip led police to arrest and charge a man calling for death and rape of Jews on social media. Police found guns and a Nazi flag during a house search. A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged after posting social media messages which included threats of raping Jewish women and calls encouraging others to “shoot people outside of synagogues.” A search of his house yielded large amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition, and a Nazi flag. Matthew Scouras, 34, from Beverly, Massachusetts, was arrested last week, according to local NBC affiliate Boston 10, after police received a tip from the FBI. According to investigators from the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, on January 1 he wrote antisemitic messages on the social media site “4chan”. The Boston Globe reported that Scouras allegedly posted messages that included slurs referring to Jewish people, threatened to rape Jewish women, and encouraged others to shoot people outside of synagogues. Police say the man allegedly bragged about having “so much ammo” and “the names and addresses of every [slur] in my neighborhood.” (…) The charges include a dozen counts of possession of an unlicensed firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, possession of a large capacity feeding device, improper storage of a firearm, making of a firearm without a serial number, and threats to destroy a place of worship and willful communication of a threat with a dangerous item.
via haaretz: Massachusetts Man Arrested Following Call to ‘Shoot People Outside of Synagogues’
siehe auch: Beverly man charged with making antisemitic threats online, multiple gun counts. A Beverly man, who allegedly mused online about raping Jewish women, boasted about how much ammunition he had, and encouraged others to shoot people outside of synagogues, is being held in the Essex County House of Correction without bail pending the outcome of a dangerousness hearing, court records show. When Beverly police officers — acting on a tip from the FBI that Matthew Scouras had posted antisemitic threats on the social media site “4chan” — visited Scouras at his mother’s apartment on Thursday, they saw a Nazi flag hanging on his bedroom wall and spotted four rifle barrels in an open closet, court documents said. They placed the 34-year-old in handcuffs. After obtaining a search warrant, police found a 9 mm Glock “ghost gun,” six boxes of ammo, three large-capacity rifle magazines, and other rifle components, ranging from receivers and stocks, to scopes, pistol frames, and jigs, Beverly Police Chief John LeLacheur said in a statement Monday. Investigators also found $70,262, believed to be the proceeds from illegal gun sales, a police report said. (…) Investigators with the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center first noted Scouras’s alleged threats on 4chan, traced them to Scouras’s mother’s apartment, and contacted Beverly police, authorities said. On Jan. 1, Scouras allegedly used slurs to refer to Jewish people, spoke of rape, and encouraged synagogue shootings in posts to the site, a police report said. “I have the names and addresses of every [slur] in my neighborhood,” Scouras allegedly wrote. “I have so much ammo.” A local investigator recalled Scouras from a 2013 incident involving threats posted to Facebook, court documents said. “I’m gunna snap and just kill people cus I can’t handle this anymore,” Scouras allegedly wrote over a decade ago; Beverly man threatening antisemitic violence had guns, Nazi flag, police say Police in Beverly, Massachusetts, arrested 34-year-old Matthew Scouras after they say the FBI informed them he had threatened violence against Jewish people. A Massachusetts man accused of threatening violence against Jewish people has been arrested, police in Beverly said Monday. Matthew Scouras, a 34-year-old Beverly man, allegedly threatened to rape Jewish women and encouraged others online to shoot people outside of synagogues. Nazi paraphernalia and illegal weapons were found in a search of his Essex Street home, according to investigators. The Federal Bureau of Investigation notified local authorities Thursday that someone in the city had posted the antisemitic threats on a message board, the Beverly Police Department said. Officers visited his home before the department obtained a search warrant, ultimately finding a Nazi flag, a 9mm Glock “ghost gun” without a serial number, three large-capacity magazine rifles, a jig to used to drill holes in polymer pistol handles, scopes, rifle stocks and other gun parts, including 11 lower receivers for rifles, which police say are each legally considered a different gun under Massachusetts law. Police also seized over $70,000 in cash, a cellphone and two desktop computers. Scouras was arrested Saturday and held for a mental health screening, police said