Guilty plea in Queens gun buy
An avowed white supremacist pleaded guilty to illegally purchasing guns in preparation for a “racial holy war,” federal prosecutors said Friday.
Joseph Miner, 30, was arrested in May right after he and and a buddy bought a cache of weapons from an undercover federal agent in a hotel room in Bayside, Queens.
Federal authorities nabbed the pair as they left with their newly acquired gun stash.
Miner not only went on racist and anti-Semitic rants on social media, but suggested a sexually frustrated past as well, prosecutors said.
“Go on a spree after my enemies til the authorities take me out ... Sometimes I’ve considered forming a well trained incel hit squad,” he wrote, according to federal prosecutors.
“Incel” is online shorthand for “involuntary celibate.”
According to authorities, Miner had an Instagram account under the username “Soldjagoy,” an apparent reference to rapper Soulja Boy with a twist, using the Yiddish word “goy,” which means non-Jewish.
“Miner stated that he hoped for the onset of ‘RaHoWa,’ or racial holy war, and contemplated moving to Texas where he can ‘own [his] guns’ without having to ‘beg police judge and detective for permission... Just for a pistol. Beg on your knees like a b—-h,’” the feds wrote in court papers in May, pulling from Miner’s social media accounts.
But his hatred was applied.
“God I hate women jews and n——-s,” he declared on his account, where he often posted photos of himself doing a Nazi salute, federal prosecutors said.
He also celebrated the 2017 white supremacist Charlottesville rally and praised the stunning anti-Semitic Chanukah knife attack in December 2019 in Monsey that killed one elderly man, prosecutors said.
“Ngl [not going to lie] this is pretty f—-ing exciting,” Miner posted in response to a photo of the bloody rampage, according to prosecutors.
Miner pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm with obliterated serial numbers, but the feds said in May he bought not only the semi-automatic pistol, but also an AR-15 style gun from the undercover.
The Benjamin Cardozo High School graduate and former track runner at Queens College faces a maximum of five years in prison when he’s sentenced. broadly