Arizona

Sentencing Means White Supremacist 'Serial' Bomber Likely To Die Behind Bars For Arizona Attack

Nick R. Martin | May 23, 2012, 1:23PM

Dennis Mahon. In background, damage is shown from the 2004 bomb he was convicted of sending to a city office in Scottsdale, Ariz. The explosion injured three city staffers.

Chances are, unless he lives to 102, a white supremacist who bragged about being a serial bomber will die in prison for his role in the 2004 mail bombing of a city office in Arizona.

Dennis Mahon, 61, was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday in Phoenix to spend the next 40 years in prison for the bombing, which injured three employees of the Scottsdale city government, including its diversity director.

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Arizona

Prosecutors Want Arizona White Supremacist Bomber To Spend The Rest Of His Days In Prison

Nick R. Martin | May 18, 2012, 4:41PM

Dennis Mahon. In background, damage is shown from the 2004 bomb he was convicted of sending to a city office in Scottsdale, Ariz. The explosion injured three city staffers.

If federal prosecutors get their way next week, an aging white supremacist who bragged about being a serial bomber and who was convicted earlier this year of sending explosives to a city office in Arizona will never see the outside world again.

A jury in Phoenix found Dennis Mahon guilty in February on three charges related to the 2004 bombing in Scottsdale that injured three city employees, including the director of the Office of Diversity and Dialogue.

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White Supremacist Groups

Missouri National Guard Investigates Another Soldier's Alleged Racist Ties

Nick R. Martin | May 17, 2012, 4:50AM

For the second time this year, officials with the Missouri National Guard are investigating whether a white supremacist has been serving in their midst.

In March, officials accused a Missouri guardsman of participating in neo-Nazi activities while also serving in the military's honor guard, which routinely helped pay last respects at funerals for veterans who fought in WWII. The sergeant was fired from the honor guard after former coworkers said he kept a picture of Adolf Hitler in his living room and tried to recruit them to the white supremacist movement.

Now, the military is investigating whether another guardsman, an Iraq War veteran, might have traveled to Florida to train a group of white supremacists who were accused earlier this month of planning to start a race war and arrested as part of a domestic terrorism probe.

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JT Ready

Border Vigilante Reportedly Plotted Deadly Raids On Latinos

Nick R. Martin | May 14, 2012, 12:59PM

Border vigilante and white supremacist JT Ready shown posing in front of a piece of U.S. Customs and Border Protection equipment in this undated photograph.

More than two years before white supremacist border vigilante JT Ready was involved in a deadly rampage in Arizona, the FBI was reportedly told he planned to lead deadly raids on Latino households in Phoenix.

According to the Phoenix New Times, a fellow border activist named David Heppler came forward in late 2009 when he became concerned about Ready's increasingly erratic behavior. He said the well known white supremacist planned to dress up like an agent from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and lead attacks on Latino house parties with the intent to kill those in attendance.

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White Supremacist Groups

White Supremacist Leader, Crew Nabbed In Fla. Terror Probe

Nick R. Martin | May 8, 2012, 5:39PM

Accused members of American Front white supremacist group, arrested in Osceola County, Florida. From top left, clockwise: Dustin Perry, Diane Stevens, Christopher Brooks, Richard Stockdale, Jennifer McGowan, Paul Jackson, Mark McGowan, Kent McLellan, Marcus Faella, Patricia Faella. (Osceola County Corrections Department)

The race war, he believed, was coming. So Florida white supremacist leader Marcus Faella instructed his followers over the past two years to prepare for it.

The preparations, according to law enforcement documents made public this week, included stockpiling weapons, experimenting with the creation of ricin and plotting some sort of "disturbance" on Orlando City Hall.

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JT Ready

Dead Arizona Border Vigilante Cleared In Immigrant Killing

Nick R. Martin | May 7, 2012, 6:55PM

Border vigilante and white supremacist JT Ready shown posing in front of a piece of U.S. Customs and Border Protection equipment in this undated photograph.

Arizona white supremacist JT Ready was many things before his death, but he was apparently not the one of the people who opened fire on a group of immigrants, killing two of them, last month in the desert north of Tucson.

Some in Arizona had speculated that Ready was involved in the killings ever since news surfaced that shooters wearing camouflage had ambushed a group of 20 to 30 immigrants the night of April 8 in a part of the desert the border vigilante was known to visit on armed patrols, looking for what he described as "narco terrorists."

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JT Ready

Neo-Nazi JT Ready Was Target Of FBI Domestic Terrorism Investigation At Time Of Massacre

Nick R. Martin | May 4, 2012, 11:35PM

Neo-Nazi and border vigilante JT Ready, who authorities said carried out a mass murder-suicide near Phoenix this week, was the target of a federal domestic terrorism investigation at the time of the incident, the head of the FBI's Phoenix office revealed late Friday.

James Turgal, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Phoenix, told an Arizona television station the probe had been active less than five years and that investigators were looking into whether Ready was involved in a series of shootings of immigrants in the desert there.

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JT Ready

JT Ready's Last Rant: Before The Massacre, The Neo-Nazi Border Vigilante Named Names

Nick R. Martin | May 4, 2012, 4:16PM

Border vigilante JT Ready poses in this photo dated Jan. 15, 2011. On his Flickr stream, he described the helicopter as belonging to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

A full three months before what police said was his fatal rampage this week, Arizona white supremacist JT Ready spilled his guts to TPM.

Ready was angry and wanted to be understood. He was running as a long shot candidate for sheriff of Pinal County, Ariz., but he was tired of being seen as a caricature.

On Jan. 23, following an interview by phone about his candidacy, the border vigilante and longtime neo-Nazi sent an email to TPM that totaled more than 4,800 words. It was obviously written in advance, but it revealed bits of his life story and told how he became arguably the loudest racist in the state.

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JT Ready

Anti-Tank Grenades Found At Ariz. Neo-Nazi Massacre Site

Nick R. Martin | May 3, 2012, 5:18PM

Police officers and FBI agents investigate the scene of a May 2, 2012 massacre in Arizona, where authorities say neo-Nazi JT Ready killed four people and then himself.

Six anti-tank grenades designed to be fired from a launcher were discovered on Wednesday at the scene of a horrific Arizona mass murder-suicide, which authorities said was carried out by well known white supremacist JT Ready.

The discovery helped expand the probe of the killings to the federal level and has led investigators with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to begin looking into how Ready was able to obtain the illegal explosives, according to ATF special agent Tom Mangan.

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Arizona

Extremists Go To 'War' In The Arizona Desert

Nick R. Martin | March 20, 2012, 5:07AM

At left, one of the bombs prosecutors say Jeffery Harbin made. At right, the border fence near Sasabe, Ariz.

Early last year, a young neo-Nazi called his girlfriend from a jail cell in Phoenix. She was upset. She was confused. She wanted to know why FBI agents were in her living room saying they caught him making pipe bombs and stockpiling other explosives.

"Why were you guys making that stuff?" she asked. "Why did you have it in your truck?"

"Because," he told her, "we wanted to make those things for the border."

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Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Government Extremism Thrives As Politics Get Angrier

Nick R. Martin | March 8, 2012, 2:51PM

The same populist anger that has led to political victories nationwide in recent years has also fueled an incredible rise of anti-government fanaticism, one of the leading watchdogs of American extremism said on Thursday.

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Arizona

White Supremacist 'Serial Bomber' Convicted, Twin Acquitted In Arizona Trial

Nick R. Martin | February 24, 2012, 5:50PM

Updated: February 24, 2012, 8:15 PM

A white supremacist who once claimed to be a serial bomber was convicted Friday in federal court in Phoenix for a 2004 Arizona bombing while his twin brother was acquitted in the same trial.

Dennis Mahon was convicted of three felonies related to the mail bombing of a city diversity office that injured its director and two other employees.

His twin brother, Daniel Mahon, was acquitted of a felony count of conspiring in the bombing plot. The judge ordered him to be set free.

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Kevin Harpham

Harpham's White Supremacist Prison Pen Pal Thinks MLK Parade Bomber Was Set Up

Ryan J. Reilly | January 27, 2012, 6:10AM

Less than a week after 36-year-old Kevin Harpham was arrested for allegedly attempting a racially motivated bombing of a 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Spokane, white supremacist leader Glenn Miller sent him a letter offering to help start a legal fund on his behalf.

"Keep your chin up and stay strong," Miller wrote in a letter dated March 14, telling Harpham that he and other members of an online white supremacist forum believed he'd "been set up."

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White Supremacist Groups

After Bombing Sting, Hate Leader Warns Followers To Beware A Woman's Charm

Nick R. Martin | January 11, 2012, 5:39AM

Accused bombers Daniel (left) and Dennis Mahon (right), and notorious white supremacist leader Tom Metzger (center).

One of the leading white supremacists in the nation wants his followers to be wary of the women in their lives after an attractive female informant infiltrated the ranks of his associates.

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White Supremacist Groups

How The Feds Brought Down Arizona's Suspected White Supremacist 'Serial' Bombing Brothers

Nick R. Martin | January 10, 2012, 5:25AM

In a small trailer park in Catoosa, Okla., in 2005, an aging white supremacist made a startling claim to a woman he had met only earlier that day.

He told her he was a serial bomber.

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August B. Kreis III

Aryan Nations Leader Sentenced For Fraud After Feds Investigated Al Qaeda Ties

Jillian Rayfield | December 15, 2011, 1:22PM

Aryan Nations leader August B. Kreis III may be a white supremacist who appeared on Jerry Springer and was investigated for possible Al Qaeda connections, but this week he was sentenced for something much less colorful: fraud.

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Hemet, CA

Was CA Fire Another Attack Targeted At Local Police?

Jillian Rayfield | June 28, 2010, 4:26PM

A screen shot from the Hemet Police website

The police department in Hemet, California, says that a fire today at an evidence storage building may be the seventh attempted attack in a six-month string of incidents targeting the local police.

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