Militia Leader Who Tried to Bomb a Remote Federal Cabin Pleads Guilty
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William Keebler has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a federally owned cabin in Arizona in 2016.
Salt Lake County, Utah, Sheriff's Office via AP
A Utah militia leader accused of trying to blow up a federal cabin in Arizona pleaded guilty in a Salt Lake City courtroom Thursday, as part of a late-hour plea deal that avoided a potentially lengthy federal trial.
The felony charge against William Keebler, a commander of the Patriots Defense Force militia in Stockton, Utah, stemmed from a foiled bomb plot in 2016. Prosecutors said Keebler traveled to a remote corner of Arizona near the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and tried to detonate explosives outside a Bureau of Land Management-owned facility. Some of the men the militia leader reportedly traveled there with, who he thought were his associates, were actually undercover FBI agents and one informant. Keebler ordered one of them to actually detonate the bomb, as the Salt Lake Tribune reported at the time.
Read more at: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/26/606242942/militia-leader-who-tried-to-bomb-a-remote-federal-cabin-pleads-guilty
Thanks to the bing news feed, I had heard little about this case., again key
" Some of the men the militia leader reportedly traveled there with, who he thought were his associates, were actually undercover FBI agents and one informant."Keebler should stick to making cookies.
