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News >  Spokane

Bomb Suspect Strikes Plea Bargain Man Charged With Growing Marijuana After Atf Raid

A man under investigation for allegedly plotting to bomb the U.S. Court House in Spokane faces sentencing in October for growing marijuana. Darwin Michael Gray, a 27-year-old unemployed insulation installer, pleaded guilty to manufacturing marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He and his attorney, federal defender Gerald Smith, struck a plea bargain on July 5 with federal prosecutors, court documents show.
News >  Spokane

Investigators Try To Trace Pipe Bombs

Federal investigators in Spokane are still trying to find the source of two sophisticated pipe bombs that turned up six months ago.< The bombs - similar to homemade hand grenades - are made with explosive powder packed in a metal CO2 cannister.
News >  Spokane

Restaurants Allowed To Bar Hells Angels

Restaurants can refuse service to Hells Angels wearing their club insignia, a Spokane County judge has ruled. District Court Judge Mike Padden said members of the biker club aren't a "protected class" under anti-discrimination provisions of state or federal law.
News >  Nation/World

Radical Right Advocating Leaderless Cells Small, Independent Groups Work Toward A Common Anti-Government Goal

Copyright 1995, The Spokesman-Review Random acts involving bombs, poison and firearms have investigators wondering whether right-wing extremists are using "leaderless resistance" to terrorize the United States. The concept shuns leaders and identifiable organizations and instead uses small groups of people who work independently toward the same goal.
News >  Nation/World

Recent Acts Investigated

The concept of "leaderless resistance" is promoted by some militia groups and white supremacists. It involves small groups of people working independently toward common right-wing goals. Investigators wonder whether these recent acts are evidence of leaderless resistance: April 19, Oklahoma City - Federal building was bombed in the deadliest terrorist act committed in the United States. Three men are tied to the bombing and others being sought.
News >  Spokane

Man Sentenced For Not Reporting Stock Profits

A retired Spokane contractor will serve two years in federal prison for failing to report more than $1 million in stock profits. Richard E. Peters, who was sentenced Monday, also must pay $199,090 in restitution and $7,259 for the costs of prosecution. U.S. District Court Judge Frem Nielsen ordered Peters to serve one year of supervised parole after he is released from prison.
News >  Spokane

Sheriff Calls For An End To Hatefulness

Those preaching hatred of government are making police the most visible targets, Spokane County Sheriff John Goldman said Saturday at an observance for slain officers. The sheriff called for an "end to the hatred and divisiveness which threatens to destroy our nation." "All too often, that hatred is blindly aimed at government," Goldman said, later making reference to last month's bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
News >  Spokane

Gun Advocates Want Civilian Training Continued Senators’ Proposal To Unload Marksmanship Program Blasted

Two Spokane gun-training advocates are critical of a plan by two Democratic senators to halt a nearly century-old firearms program. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., are urging Congress to rescind the $2.5 million in taxpayer money for this year's Civilian Marksmanship Program. The Pentagon-funded program, administered through the Department of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM), provides firearms training to civilians.
News >  Spokane

Drug Dealer Ordered To Pay For Prison Time

A Spokane cocaine dealer arrested in Operation Doughboy must serve 68 months in federal prison and pay half the cost of his imprisonment. Gregory S. Brebner, 38, will pay the federal government $60,497 for the time he spends in prison, U.S. District Judge Frem Nielsen ordered Tuesday. Brebner pleaded guilty in January to eight counts of distribution of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute the drug.
News >  Spokane

Man Faces Cocaine Charges Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Restaurant Owner

The former owner of an Italian restaurant in Spokane faces arrest on a multiple-count federal indictment accusing him of selling cocaine. Michael A. Godwin, 38, who operated Ristorante Spezia on West Francis, is charged with conspiracy to distribute more than a pound of cocaine. He also is charged with distribution of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
News >  Nation/World

April 19 A Key Date For Militia

April 19, the date of the Oklahoma City bombing, is an important day among some factions of the militia movement. A flier circulated among militia supporters last month reported that Richard Snell, a white supremacist who murdered two people, was scheduled for execution April 19 in Arkansas.
News >  Nation/World

Bombing Mirrors Novel Plot White Supremacist Story Strikingly Similar To Real Events

The deadly terrorism in Oklahoma City closely matches a story line from a novel used in the past as a game plan by white supremacists. The FBI hasn't connected any group to the bombing, but investigators are scrutinizing white supremacists among hundreds of leads. Supremacists who formed The Order in the Pacific Northwest in 1983 followed ideas from the novel, "The Turner Diaries," written under an assumed name by the leader of the former American Nazi Party.