• The Justice Department is fighting to keep an anti-government extremist in custody after the FBI allegedly seized the largest cache of “finished explosive devices” in its history from a farm outside of Norfolk, VA.
  • Brad Kenneth Spafford, 36, was arrested on Dec. 17 for allegedly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. The single-count charge led to a search of Spafford’s 20-acre farm, where federal investigators said they found a mass quantity of homemade explosives.
  • “When investigators searched his 20-acre property, in Isle of Wight County, they found in a detached garage more than 150 explosive devices — mostly pipe bombs, some of them labeled ‘lethal,'” The New York Times reported. “They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading ‘#NoLivesMatter’.
  • According to the Times, “No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram.”
  • Source: rawstory.com