Seattle – Police discovered a armament and armor cache, including an machine gun and grenades, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid in a house in the state of Washington, the authorities said on Tuesday.
Derek Sanders, the elected Sheriff of Thurson County, said in a Facebook publication that the Criminal Investigation Division of the US Army. UU. He requested assistance to his office on Monday as a team of weapons and special tactics of the FBI executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a robbery and theft of violent military weapons.”
The United States Prosecutor’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to Associated Press on Tuesday night that the raid order related to an army CID and an FBI investigation into an assault on Sunday at the Lewis-McCord joint base, just north of Olympia.
Sanders’ statement said two people were arrested and admitted to Thurson County prison to investigate crimes related to firearms.
“The suspects identified in this case actively participated in Nazi White Nationalist efforts,” he wrote.
Sanders did not return the messages immediately in search of comments on Tuesday night.
The statement of the Office of the United States prosecutor said that Army investigators had identified suspects in the assault at the military base and the FBI executed the search warrant on Monday night until the early hours of Tuesday.
He contacted to comment, the FBI said his Seattle office was “helping our partners the Sheriff’s Office of Thurston County and the Army Criminal Investigation Division” and sent them questions.
Additional information was expected to be included in a federal criminal complaint to reveal on Wednesday. The two arrested people were expected to make initial appearances in the United States District Court in Tacoma on Wednesday afternoon.
In his position, Sanders said that the agents had seized 35 firearms in the house, including short barrel rifles and an MG42 machine gun, a type typically compatible with a bipod and was used by German troops during World War II. Other seized teams included grenades, explosives, body armor, ammunition and ballistic helmets, and multiple rifles were organized in the windows throughout the residence, said the sheriff.
He published photos of the house that showed a variety of weapons, ammunition and body armor surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia, including a red Nazi flag printed with a black swastika.
