FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state

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FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state
Story by GENE JOHNSON • 6h

SEATTLE (AP) — Law enforcement discovered a cache of weaponry and armor, including a machine gun and grenade launchers, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a home in Washington state, authorities said Tuesday.

Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”
 
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.

Sanders' statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-discovers-cache-of-guns-armor-and-nazi-paraphernalia-while-raiding-home-in-washington-state/ar-AA1G2BxA?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=0c0661e468034d4aa9c4a2f5c416e967&ei=117

[mountaineer]

Just speculating here, but in that part of the state, the miscreants are more likely to be antifa-affiliated than anything else.

Edit to state that perhaps I stand corrected, although there's little to no difference between Antifa and Nazis:

Sarah Fields
@SarahisCensored
BREAKING: TCSO AND ARMY CID EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANT ON WHITE NATIONALIST EXTREMISTS; 35 FIREARMS, GR*NADE LAUNCHERS, AND EXPL0SIVES SEIZED IN LACEY, WASHINGTON.

According to Sheriff Sanders of Thurston County, on June 2, 2025, Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) contacted the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) for assistance in executing a search warrant at an address in Lacey, Washington, following a vi0lent robbery and theft of military weaponry and armor. The suspects, identified as Levi Austin Frakes and Charles E. Fields, were actively involved in N*zi white nationalist activities.

An FBI SWAT team executed the warrant, seizing short-barreled rifles, an MG42 machine g*n, gr*nade launchers, expl0sives, body armor, ammunition, and ballistic helmets surrounded by N*zi paraphernalia. Multiple rifles were staged at windows throughout the residence.

Frakes and Fields were apprehended and booked into Thurston County Jail on firearm-related offenses, with additional federal charges likely to be filed upon completion of the federal investigation.

Both appeared in court on local firearm charges. Despite requests to set bail at $5,000, the Superior Court granted the prosecutor’s request and set bail at $500,000 for each.
12:24 AM · Jun 4, 2025

[mountaineer]

Coalition of the Unbreaded
@gypsysinner
Ok. I'm not saying these weren't nazis, but how come every time someone busts nazis all their flags are so new they have the creases? And the morale patches and all crisp and brand new. Can we bust nazis that have been nazis for more than an hour?
3:23 AM · Jun 4, 2025

[Wingnut]

Coalition of the Unbreaded
@gypsysinner
Ok. I'm not saying these weren't nazis, but how come every time someone busts nazis all their flags are so new they have the creases? And the morale patches and all crisp and brand new. Can we bust nazis that have been nazis for more than an hour?
3:23 AM · Jun 4, 2025

I always steam and then Iron the wrinkles out of my Nazi linen. 

[mountaineer]

I always steam and then Iron the wrinkles out of my Nazi linen.

Nothing like a nice crisp crease in the pant legs of the ol' SS uniform. 

[Wingnut]

Nothing like a nice crisp crease in the pant legs of the ol' SS uniform. 

You can't put the goose in goose step without a sharp crease when your going to a protest or burn a city.

[GtHawk]

I always steam and then Iron the wrinkles out of my Nazi linen.

I used to, but I found I could just toss in the dryer with a fabric softener sheet, much easy.

[Sighlass]

More details here...

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/nazi-white-supremacist-guns-fbi-washington-m60626

One of the defendants told investigators they had been stealing equipment from the base for the past two years to sell or trade, and agents found about $24,000 in cash at the home, wrote Special Agent Christopher J. Raguse of the Army Criminal Investigation Division.

The federal complaint charges them with robbery, assault and theft of government property. They also face investigation on state charges of unlawful possession of incendiary devices, short-barreled rifles and a machine gun. 

They (Both Ex-military) attacked an Army personal with a hammer (requiring hospital).... They stole from the tax payers... Throw them under the jail.