A federal indictment was returned charging Lucas Alexander Temple, 20, of Sarasota, Fla., with possessing an unregistered, sawed-off shotgun with its serial number removed and having received child pornographic materials.
He faces up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said on Monday.
Per the indictment, federal agents, who searched Temple’s home on Nov. 20, found the unregistered gun and evidence that he had been planning a “racially motivated act of violence, including pipe bombs, multiple firearms, ammunition, a pressure cooker, literature on how to manufacture explosives and a written plan as to his intentions.”
They also found Nazi materials and items related to prior mass shootings and a “large flag bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol,” the Justice Department said.
“The Atomwaffen Division is a U.S.-based racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group,” whose “targets have included racial minorities, the Jewish community, the LGBTQ community, the U.S. government, journalists and critical infrastructure,” it added.
