Federal authorities reportedly arrested a grocery store worker in Sarasota, Fla., who is accused of sharing bomb-making instructions in encrypted, neo-Nazi group chats that the FBI monitored and planning to livestream a terror attack.
Lucas Alexander Temple, 20, who used the online handles “Devilwaffen999” and “Micah Fischer,” was taken into custody on Nov. 20 at his parents’ home, according to news reports. At press time, there was no statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Temple was charged initially with distributing information on explosives, but prosecutors later filed a complaint alleging possession of an unregistered gun after agents found a sawed-off shotgun in his bedroom, according to the Independent. Per an affidavit that the paper reviewed, detectives found Nazi literature and a flag and copies of journals of mass shooters in his bedroom.
The investigators also reportedly found what appeared to be a written plan for a livestreamed domestic terror attack. “Write manifesto. Notify friends of livestream. Put flags on car. Play music on speakers during operation,” it reportedly stated, referring also to “motion-activated bombs in doorways.”