FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home

The FBI has discovered a cache of subject weaponry and armor, including a instrumentality weapon and grenade launchers, on with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a location successful Washington state

SEATTLE -- Law enforcement discovered a cache of weaponry and armor, including a instrumentality weapon and grenade launchers, on with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a location successful Washington state, authorities said Tuesday.

Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said successful a Facebook station that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his bureau for assistance Monday arsenic an FBI peculiar weapons and tactics squad executed a hunt warrant successful Lacey, adjacent the authorities capitol of Olympia, “as a effect of a convulsive robbery and theft of subject weaponry/armor.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office successful Seattle said successful a connection to The Associated Press connected Tuesday nighttime that the hunt warrant related to an Army CID and FBI probe into an battle Sunday astatine Joint Base Lewis-McCord, conscionable northbound of Olympia.

Sanders' connection said 2 radical were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for probe of firearms-related offenses.

“The suspects identified successful this lawsuit were actively progressive successful Nazi White Nationalist efforts,” helium wrote.

Sanders did not instantly instrumentality messages seeking remark Tuesday night.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office connection said Army investigators had identified suspects successful the battle astatine the subject basal and the FBI executed the hunt warrant precocious Monday nighttime into aboriginal Tuesday.

Reached for comment, the FBI said its Seattle bureau was “assisting our partners Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and Army Criminal Investigation Division” and referred questions to them.

Additional accusation was expected to beryllium included successful a national transgression ailment to beryllium unsealed Wednesday. The 2 radical arrested were expected to marque archetypal appearances astatine U.S. District Court successful Tacoma connected Wednesday afternoon.

In his post, Sanders said agents had seized 35 firearms astatine the home, including abbreviated tube rifles and an MG42 instrumentality weapon — a benignant typically supported with a bipod and which was utilized by German troops during World War II. Other seized cogwheel included grenade launchers, explosives, assemblage armor, ammunition and ballistic helmets, and aggregate rifles were staged astatine windows passim the residence, the sheriff said.

He posted photos from the location showing an array of weapons, ammunition and assemblage armor surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia, including a reddish Nazi emblem emblazoned with a achromatic swastika.

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