Prosecutors: Neo-nazis discussed assassination, prison break
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Federal prosecutors in Maryland are recommending 25-year prison sentences for two neonazi group members, calling them domestic terrorists who prepared for a civil war, discussed how to break racist mass killer Dylann Roof out of death row and talked about assassinating a Virginia lawmaker.
Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews and U.S. Army veteran Brian Mark Lemley Jr. are scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 28 after pleading guilty to gun charges in June. They have been jailed since their January 2020 arrest at a Delaware apartment where the FBI had installed a closed-circuit television camera and microphone.
The surveillance equipment captured them talking about planning an attack during a gun rights rally at Virginia’s
Capitol in Richmond, destroying rail lines and power lines, and how Mathews “briefly considered” trying to assassinate a Virginia lawmaker, prosecutors wrote in a court filing Thursday.