A Las Vegas security guard has been charged after bomb-making materials were found in his home and he promoted white supremacist ideologies online, the Department of Justice says.<\/p>\n
Conor Climo, 23, had been discussing attacking a synagogue and “conducting surveillance” on a bar he believed catered to the LGBT community.<\/p>\n
A notebook was found allegedly containing plans for attacks.<\/p>\n
In 2016, he made local news\u00a0for walking the streets with an AR-rifle.<\/a><\/p>\n “If there is possibly a very determined enemy, we at least have the means to deal with it,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n Mr Climo was charged with one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, which the US Department of Justice stated was being used for the component parts of a destructive device.<\/p>\n Investigations found the security guard had been in contact with white supremacists.<\/p>\n “Climo was communicating with individuals who identified with a white supremacist extremist organization using the National Socialist Movement to promote their ideology,” a statement by the Department of Justice said.<\/p>\n “He discussed attacking a Las Vegas synagogue and making Molotov Cocktails and improvised explosive devices, and he also discussed conducting surveillance on a bar he believed catered to the LGBTQ community.”<\/p>\n A notebook found in his house contained sketches of timed explosive devices.<\/p>\n Mr Climo – who could get up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine – also attempted to recruit a homeless man to carry out “pre-attack surveillance” on at least one Las Vegas synagogue and other targets, the statement said.<\/p>\n This is not the first time concerns have been raised over Mr Climo.<\/p>\n When he was 20, local news outlets reported how he was patrolling streets in Centennial Hills armed with a rifle and knife, claiming that he’d had enough of crime in the area.<\/p>\n “I don’t know what his intentions are, what his motives are, what his background is,” one neighbour told KTNV.<\/p>\n There have been more than 250 mass shootings in the US this year. Last weekend, mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, left more than 30 people dead.<\/p>\n The suspect accused of killing 22 people in El Paso, has confessed that he was targeting “Mexicans”.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"