White supremacist sentenced to 30 years for plot to buy chemical weapons
JACKSON, Tenn. Federal authorities announced today that a white supremacist was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to acquire nerve gas and explosives in a plot to destroy government buildings.
Demetrius Van Crocker, a farmhand from McKenzie in West Tennessee, was arrested in 2004 after he tried to buy the weapons from undercover federal agents.
The 40-year-old divorced father of two told agents his dream was to set off a dirty bomb in Washington D-C while the House and the Senate were in session.
A federal jury convicted Crocker in April of five charges of attempting to acquire chemical weapons and stolen explosives with intent to harm individuals or damage a building.
Crocker became involved with neo-Nazi groups as a teenager in Jackson.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the F-B-I started investigating him after an informant alerted the agencies to his anti-government rants.
Crocker also told an agent he wanted a helicopter license so he could spray or bomb black neighborhoods in Jackson with poison gas and spike drugs with poison to kill black people.
Crocker was also sentenced to lifetime supervised release.
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