He was sentenced to months in prison. Wright and year-olds Brandon Baxter and Connor Stevens pleaded guilty to conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, knowingly attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage property with explosives. Judge David Dowd backed a government request last week to consider stricter sentences based on a "terrorist enhancement" that the three were trying to intimidate the government when they conspired between February 20 and April 30 to explode the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge.
Baxter and Stevens will learn their sentences later Tuesday. Over the last two years, he had left Facebook comments about threatening Trump and helping the Taliban on other users' posts. Pitts served time in Ohio for a robbery and pleaded guilty to theft in Ohio in In , the state of Pennsylvania had asked Ohio to extradite Pitts as a fugitive from charges of assault, robbery and theft.
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Southlake Podcast U. Wright allegedly was interested in "The Anarchist Cookbook," which describes the construction and use of explosives.
It teaches you how to pick locks. It does everything," he is alleged to have said. According to the complaint, authorities were first alerted to the beginnings of the alleged scheme last year when an undercover FBI employee attended a protest group's event.
The employee was deployed, the complaint said, because of "an initial report of potential criminal activity and threats involving anarchists who would be attending. During the event on October 21, , an undercover FBI employee observed "four suspicious males with walkie-talkie radios around their necks," the complaint says. Some of the men also donned black masks while carrying anarchist flags and "acted differently than the other people in attendance.
A fifth defendant, Joshua S. Stafford, 23, is undergoing a psychiatric examination. Earlier, U. Baxter to 10 years, and year-old Connor C.
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