Federal authorities in Tennessee arrested a man for allegedly attempting to acquire chemical weapons, explosives and weapons of mass destruction in order to attack government buildings.
After a seven month investigation, Demetrius Van Crocker, 39, a farmhand from McKenzie, Tennessee, was arrested in Jackson on October 25, 2004, for trying to obtain what he believed were ingredients for sarin nerve gas and C-4 explosives from an undercover agent, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
According to the arrest affidavit, an undercover federal agent was introduced to Crocker by a cooperating witness. Crocker told the agent that he hates Jewish people, admires Adolf Hitler and that creating a concentration camp for Jewish insurance executives “would be a desirable endeavor.” Local officials familiar with Crocker said that in the 1980s Crocker had been involved with a white supremacist group.
Crocker also told the agent that “it would be a good thing if somebody could detonate some sort of weapon of mass destruction on Washington D.C., while both the U.S. Congress and Senate were in session.”
http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/Anti_Government/tennessee_chemical_weapons_041101.htm?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_the_NewsHere's one of only 3 or 4 media references I could find that are still up about this-snip>
Demetrius ''Van'' Crocker's family members and supporters sat together in the courtroom, taking up an entire row and talking amongst themselves as they waited on him to emerge from a doorway. They declined to make a comment.
Crocker, 39, entered the courtroom without restraints, dressed in a khaki-colored uniform, and sat next to his federal public defender, Stephen Shankman.
http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_storyV2.mv+link=200407066652367
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