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That reporting led to increased scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight employees have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. Five have pleaded guilty. Two were convicted at trial. Another case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an inmate is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over inmates, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an inmate can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal has been one of many troubles plaguing the BOP, which is also beset by rampant \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-united-states-prisons-staff-shortages-health-dba13f1c6368392be2bc5e7375170a78\">staffing shortages\u003c/a>, suicides and security breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Dublin warden Ray Garcia was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-sexual-abuse-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation-93a168903fbeaed61f72fb9088e02dd4\">convicted in 2022 of molesting inmates\u003c/a> and forcing them to pose naked in their cells. Prosecutors say he tried to keep his victims quiet with promises that he’d help them get early release and told one victim he was close friends with a prison official responsible for investigating staff misconduct and couldn’t be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested Garcia in September 2021, months after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-california-bf66f02f8d21137461497d26c38c6ac5\">questioning him at the prison\u003c/a> and searching his office and vehicle. He is serving a six-year prison sentence.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"fci-dublin\"]Testifying on his own behalf, Garcia conceded that he had made mistakes but claimed that some of his alleged wrongdoing — like taking pictures of naked inmates — was done as part of his official duties to document violations of prison policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors countered by calling a prison lieutenant who said he’s never seen a case where it was appropriate for an employee to take photos of a nude inmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other employees accused of sexual abuse were former chaplain James Theodore Highhouse, who was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\">abusing an inmate\u003c/a> in his chapel office and lying to authorities, and ex-safety administrator John Russell Bellhouse, who was convicted last June of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\">sexually abusing two inmates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Bellhouse “began to express an interest in a particular female inmate and started calling the inmate his ‘girlfriend’” in 2020. They said he inappropriately touched the woman and that she performed oral sex on Bellhouse twice in the prison’s safety office. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Garcia’s removal as warden, new officials have promised to turn around the scandal-ridden prison. At recent court hearings, FCI Dublin officers and government officials testified that conditions at the facility have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Janssen said the latest FBI investigation shows much has remained the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show that this has not changed,” Janssen said. “This is a larger problem in BOP, and it has not changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is handling the lawsuits filed by inmates and is considering more oversight of FCI Dublin, has set a hearing for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Hall contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal investigators are again searching a troubled women’s prison in California, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that led to previous charges against a former warden and other employees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710195232,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1065},"headData":{"title":"FBI Raids Dublin Women's Prison Plagued by Sexual Abuse | KQED","description":"Federal investigators are again searching a troubled women’s prison in California, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that led to previous charges against a former warden and other employees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo \u003cbr />Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11978878/fbi-raids-dublin-womens-prison-plagued-by-sexual-abuse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal investigators on Monday were again searching \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-united-states-sexual-abuse-only-on-ap-d321ae51fe93dfd9d6e5754383a95801\">a troubled women’s prison\u003c/a> in Dublin, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that led to previous charges against a former warden and other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen FBI agents were at the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, an all-women’s low-security prison, a person familiar with the matter told the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>. The warden, an associate warden and a captain were reportedly removed from the facility, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on the condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI agents could be seen carrying boxes out of the prison, which has been known as the “rape club” because of years of rampant staff-on-inmate abuse. The FBI confirmed agents were there conducting “court-authorized law enforcement activity” but declined to give details.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Is this related to our ongoing case? We have a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about our clients who are still at this facility.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Attorney Kara Janssen, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I can confirm we conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity at that location,” an FBI spokesperson told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Janssen is an attorney with Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP and represents inmates at FCI Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we just have a lot of questions about what is going on,” Janssen said. “Is this related to our ongoing case? We have a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about our clients who are still at this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen said there are also concerns about how the prison is currently functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with the federal Bureau of Prisons told KQED that a new interim warden has been assigned at the facility effective immediately:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consistent with unprecedented and ongoing actions by FBOP leadership to create a positive change in the culture at FCI Dublin, recent developments have necessitated new executive employees be installed at the institution. This new team has been charged with developing a plan for the future of the facility,” the BOP stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday’s search came days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">a new wave of civil lawsuits alleging abuse at FCI Dublin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971511/judge-considers-federal-oversight-for-dublin-womens-prison-notorious-for-sexual-abuse\">as a federal judge weighs appointing a special master to oversee the prison’s operations\u003c/a>. The new claims filed last week bring the total number of lawsuits facing FCI Dublin to 63. It’s the latest cloud over the low-security facility about 21 miles east of Oakland.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Consistent with unprecedented and ongoing actions by FBOP leadership to create a positive change in the culture at FCI Dublin, recent developments have necessitated new executive employees be installed at the institution. This new team has been charged with developing a plan for the future of the facility.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Bureau of Prisons","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-united-states-sexual-abuse-only-on-ap-d321ae51fe93dfd9d6e5754383a95801\">An AP investigation in 2021\u003c/a> found a culture of abuse and cover-ups that had persisted for years at the prison, which has more than 650 inmates. That reporting led to increased scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight employees have been charged with sexually abusing inmates. Five have pleaded guilty. Two were convicted at trial. Another case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an inmate is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over inmates, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an inmate can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal has been one of many troubles plaguing the BOP, which is also beset by rampant \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-united-states-prisons-staff-shortages-health-dba13f1c6368392be2bc5e7375170a78\">staffing shortages\u003c/a>, suicides and security breaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Dublin warden Ray Garcia was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-sexual-abuse-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation-93a168903fbeaed61f72fb9088e02dd4\">convicted in 2022 of molesting inmates\u003c/a> and forcing them to pose naked in their cells. Prosecutors say he tried to keep his victims quiet with promises that he’d help them get early release and told one victim he was close friends with a prison official responsible for investigating staff misconduct and couldn’t be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested Garcia in September 2021, months after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-california-bf66f02f8d21137461497d26c38c6ac5\">questioning him at the prison\u003c/a> and searching his office and vehicle. He is serving a six-year prison sentence.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"fci-dublin"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Testifying on his own behalf, Garcia conceded that he had made mistakes but claimed that some of his alleged wrongdoing — like taking pictures of naked inmates — was done as part of his official duties to document violations of prison policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors countered by calling a prison lieutenant who said he’s never seen a case where it was appropriate for an employee to take photos of a nude inmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the other employees accused of sexual abuse were former chaplain James Theodore Highhouse, who was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\">abusing an inmate\u003c/a> in his chapel office and lying to authorities, and ex-safety administrator John Russell Bellhouse, who was convicted last June of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\">sexually abusing two inmates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Bellhouse “began to express an interest in a particular female inmate and started calling the inmate his ‘girlfriend’” in 2020. They said he inappropriately touched the woman and that she performed oral sex on Bellhouse twice in the prison’s safety office. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Garcia’s removal as warden, new officials have promised to turn around the scandal-ridden prison. At recent court hearings, FCI Dublin officers and government officials testified that conditions at the facility have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Janssen said the latest FBI investigation shows much has remained the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show that this has not changed,” Janssen said. “This is a larger problem in BOP, and it has not changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is handling the lawsuits filed by inmates and is considering more oversight of FCI Dublin, has set a hearing for Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Hall contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978878/fbi-raids-dublin-womens-prison-plagued-by-sexual-abuse","authors":["byline_news_11978878"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32044","news_17725","news_425","news_33723","news_33888"],"featImg":"news_11978880","label":"news"},"news_11958522":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11958522","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11958522","score":null,"sort":[1692322066000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments","title":"FBI Arrests Antioch, Pittsburg Police Officers Following Indictments","publishDate":1692322066,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FBI Arrests Antioch, Pittsburg Police Officers Following Indictments | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The FBI arrested nine East Bay police officers on Thursday for alleged civil rights violations, interfering with investigations and defrauding their employers, Ismail Ramsey, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, said at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests were made in a series of raids early Thursday morning across and beyond the Bay Area, following an 18-month FBI investigation and the release of four federal grand jury indictments against the officers. Charges include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, deprivation of civil rights and destruction of records.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Collins, Antioch resident\"]‘It’s amazing and shocking and sad that the lack of transparency and accountability has led to a police department that is so culturally deficient and problems that are so ingrained, so pervasive.’[/pullquote]“Today is a dark day in our city’s history, as people trusted to uphold the law, allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the FBI,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamarthorpe.com/post/statement-regrading-today-s-fbi-raid-and-grand-jury-indictment-of-several-antioch-police-officers?fbclid=IwAR3L4FdHekzuTheUzSMMklYxPHFn9VEZ3IOS6Tm4QB_HmygYvvDSgfa6HiE\">Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe said in a written statement\u003c/a> shortly after the arrests. “As our city absorbs this tragic news, we must come together as one. Today’s actions are the beginning of the end of a long and arduous process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested nine officers on Thursday and a total of 10 have been charged across four indictments, federal law enforcement officials said at the press conference Thursday. Eight of those arrested have made initial court appearances so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is one of the highest priorities for the San Francisco Field Office,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. “Law enforcement officers bear a tremendous responsibility to police out communities lawfully in keeping with the constitution, and we must always be true to that guiding principle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-800x600.jpg\" alt='A chart in a room that reads at the top \"Charges issued by federal grand jury on August 16, 2023.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chart showing the list of charges against Antioch and Pittsburg police officers by a federal grand jury on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement reporting the arrest of current and former APD officers is disheartening and undermines the incredible work our staff does on a daily basis,” Acting Antioch Chief of Police Joe Vigil said in a press release. “Any police officer who breaks public trust must be held accountable, especially because our effectiveness relies heavily on confidence and support from our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first indictment includes charges against Morteza Amiri and Samantha Genoveva Peterson of the APD, along with Pittsburg Police Department officers Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa, Ernesto Juan Mejia-Orozco, and Amanda Carmella Theodosy-Nash, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faking college credits in order to receive pay bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second indictment alleges that APD officers Daniel Harris and Devon Wenger illegally obtained and distributed anabolic steroids, and for attempting to destroy evidence that they had tried to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Manly Williams of the APD was indicted on obstruction of evidence and for destroying and falsifying records to obstruct a federal investigation using a wiretap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth and final indictment announced Thursday alleges that Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger, all with the APD, carried out what Ramsey called a “disturbing litany” of civil rights violations. The violations include inappropriately deploying a canine and other weapons in order to deliberately harm individuals in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said that officers shared photos of their victims’ injuries and collected mementos from attacks, such as ammunition used against people of Antioch. “Defendants boasted about their illegal uses of force,” the federal attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is still ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictments and subsequent arrests mark a turning point for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">members of the community\u003c/a> who have been reeling from the recent police scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation kicked off in 2022 after concerns were raised about police officers who lied about their college degrees. But the FBI and Contra Costa County district attorney’s investigation into the local police department would reveal far more crimes and civil rights violations from Antioch and Pittsburg officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among discoveries was a culture of explicitly racist and homophobic messages sent between numerous Antioch police officers. The investigation revealed officers not only using racial epithets including the N-word and describing Black people as “gorillas,” but it also showed officers had falsified confessions to build cases and physically assault suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several messages, the officers bragged about racial profiling and beating suspects.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101893101,news_11956286,news_11947876,news_11946551\" label=\"Related Stories\"]California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893101/ag-rob-bonta-launches-civil-rights-investigation-into-antioch-police-department\">Rob Bonta launched a separate civil rights investigation\u003c/a> into the APD in May, after it was revealed that officers had exchanged racist and homophobic text messages about community members and people in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our job to protect and serve all of our communities,” Bonta said in a press release announcing his investigation. “Police departments are on the front lines of that fight every day as they work to safeguard the people of our state. However, where there are allegations of potentially pervasive bias or discrimination, it can undermine the trust that is critical for public safety and our justice system. It is our responsibility to ensure that we establish a culture of accountability, professionalism, and zero tolerance for hateful or racist behavior, on or off duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford announced his retirement last month and officially stepped down on Aug. 11 amid the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spiraling revelations have impacted nearly half of the department’s sworn officers, and texts were exchanged between nearly 45 Antioch officers. As of July, 40 out of 90 officers were no longer working, the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of cases that officers in the probe were involved in have since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">dropped or derailed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Collins, whose step-son Angelo Quinto was killed by Antioch police in December 2020, told KQED that the arrests were an important step in rebuilding trust that has been lost between the community and its law enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing and shocking and sad that the lack of transparency and accountability has led to a police department that is so culturally deficient and problems that are so ingrained, so pervasive. But it’s good that there is some accountability and transparency coming out of the results of this federal indictment,” Collins told KQED. “It’s painful, but it’s a first step in improving the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bella Quinto Collins, Quinto’s younger sister, was cautiously optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This arrest is really good news,” she told KQED, “But at the same time, I don’t see this as necessarily the end of anything. It’s pretty clear that there’s still an ongoing issue within the culture of APD and there’s so much more work to be done to look into other officers that seem to be involved in various other issues and who are implicated in those text messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gigi Crowder, executive director of National Alliance on Mental Illness in Contra Costa, called the arrests “one step in a long road,” and that a lot of young people and families she works with have grown fearful of their own law enforcement agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This might send a message to officers who hold those beliefs but hadn’t been involved … that you can’t get away with being asked to protect and serve and carry these racial belief systems about a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “We get complaints from across the county. If they do deeper probing, they will find it’s not isolated to Pittsburg and Antioch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Thorpe has previously faced criticism for seeking accountability for officer misconduct. In his written statement on Thursday, the mayor wrote: “Today’s arrests are demonstrative of the issues that have plagued the Antioch Police Department for decades. Seeking to reform the Antioch Police Department is not anti-police, it is pro our residents, and pro officers that have served and continue to serve with honor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters Annelise Finney, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Giuliana Salomone contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The indictments and arrests follow an 18-month-long investigation on racist text messages shared between members of the Antioch Police Department. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692322830,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1372},"headData":{"title":"FBI Arrests Antioch, Pittsburg Police Officers Following Indictments | KQED","description":"The indictments and arrests follow an 18-month-long investigation on racist text messages shared between members of the Antioch Police Department. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The FBI arrested nine East Bay police officers on Thursday for alleged civil rights violations, interfering with investigations and defrauding their employers, Ismail Ramsey, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, said at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests were made in a series of raids early Thursday morning across and beyond the Bay Area, following an 18-month FBI investigation and the release of four federal grand jury indictments against the officers. Charges include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, deprivation of civil rights and destruction of records.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s amazing and shocking and sad that the lack of transparency and accountability has led to a police department that is so culturally deficient and problems that are so ingrained, so pervasive.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Robert Collins, Antioch resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Today is a dark day in our city’s history, as people trusted to uphold the law, allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the FBI,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.lamarthorpe.com/post/statement-regrading-today-s-fbi-raid-and-grand-jury-indictment-of-several-antioch-police-officers?fbclid=IwAR3L4FdHekzuTheUzSMMklYxPHFn9VEZ3IOS6Tm4QB_HmygYvvDSgfa6HiE\">Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe said in a written statement\u003c/a> shortly after the arrests. “As our city absorbs this tragic news, we must come together as one. Today’s actions are the beginning of the end of a long and arduous process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested nine officers on Thursday and a total of 10 have been charged across four indictments, federal law enforcement officials said at the press conference Thursday. Eight of those arrested have made initial court appearances so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is one of the highest priorities for the San Francisco Field Office,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. “Law enforcement officers bear a tremendous responsibility to police out communities lawfully in keeping with the constitution, and we must always be true to that guiding principle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-800x600.jpg\" alt='A chart in a room that reads at the top \"Charges issued by federal grand jury on August 16, 2023.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_3467-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chart showing the list of charges against Antioch and Pittsburg police officers by a federal grand jury on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announcement reporting the arrest of current and former APD officers is disheartening and undermines the incredible work our staff does on a daily basis,” Acting Antioch Chief of Police Joe Vigil said in a press release. “Any police officer who breaks public trust must be held accountable, especially because our effectiveness relies heavily on confidence and support from our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first indictment includes charges against Morteza Amiri and Samantha Genoveva Peterson of the APD, along with Pittsburg Police Department officers Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa, Ernesto Juan Mejia-Orozco, and Amanda Carmella Theodosy-Nash, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faking college credits in order to receive pay bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second indictment alleges that APD officers Daniel Harris and Devon Wenger illegally obtained and distributed anabolic steroids, and for attempting to destroy evidence that they had tried to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Manly Williams of the APD was indicted on obstruction of evidence and for destroying and falsifying records to obstruct a federal investigation using a wiretap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fourth and final indictment announced Thursday alleges that Morteza Amiri, Eric Rombough and Devon Wenger, all with the APD, carried out what Ramsey called a “disturbing litany” of civil rights violations. The violations include inappropriately deploying a canine and other weapons in order to deliberately harm individuals in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said that officers shared photos of their victims’ injuries and collected mementos from attacks, such as ammunition used against people of Antioch. “Defendants boasted about their illegal uses of force,” the federal attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is still ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictments and subsequent arrests mark a turning point for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">members of the community\u003c/a> who have been reeling from the recent police scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation kicked off in 2022 after concerns were raised about police officers who lied about their college degrees. But the FBI and Contra Costa County district attorney’s investigation into the local police department would reveal far more crimes and civil rights violations from Antioch and Pittsburg officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among discoveries was a culture of explicitly racist and homophobic messages sent between numerous Antioch police officers. The investigation revealed officers not only using racial epithets including the N-word and describing Black people as “gorillas,” but it also showed officers had falsified confessions to build cases and physically assault suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several messages, the officers bragged about racial profiling and beating suspects.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101893101,news_11956286,news_11947876,news_11946551","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893101/ag-rob-bonta-launches-civil-rights-investigation-into-antioch-police-department\">Rob Bonta launched a separate civil rights investigation\u003c/a> into the APD in May, after it was revealed that officers had exchanged racist and homophobic text messages about community members and people in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is our job to protect and serve all of our communities,” Bonta said in a press release announcing his investigation. “Police departments are on the front lines of that fight every day as they work to safeguard the people of our state. However, where there are allegations of potentially pervasive bias or discrimination, it can undermine the trust that is critical for public safety and our justice system. It is our responsibility to ensure that we establish a culture of accountability, professionalism, and zero tolerance for hateful or racist behavior, on or off duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch Police Chief Steven Ford announced his retirement last month and officially stepped down on Aug. 11 amid the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spiraling revelations have impacted nearly half of the department’s sworn officers, and texts were exchanged between nearly 45 Antioch officers. As of July, 40 out of 90 officers were no longer working, the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of cases that officers in the probe were involved in have since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">dropped or derailed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Collins, whose step-son Angelo Quinto was killed by Antioch police in December 2020, told KQED that the arrests were an important step in rebuilding trust that has been lost between the community and its law enforcement officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s amazing and shocking and sad that the lack of transparency and accountability has led to a police department that is so culturally deficient and problems that are so ingrained, so pervasive. But it’s good that there is some accountability and transparency coming out of the results of this federal indictment,” Collins told KQED. “It’s painful, but it’s a first step in improving the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bella Quinto Collins, Quinto’s younger sister, was cautiously optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This arrest is really good news,” she told KQED, “But at the same time, I don’t see this as necessarily the end of anything. It’s pretty clear that there’s still an ongoing issue within the culture of APD and there’s so much more work to be done to look into other officers that seem to be involved in various other issues and who are implicated in those text messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gigi Crowder, executive director of National Alliance on Mental Illness in Contra Costa, called the arrests “one step in a long road,” and that a lot of young people and families she works with have grown fearful of their own law enforcement agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This might send a message to officers who hold those beliefs but hadn’t been involved … that you can’t get away with being asked to protect and serve and carry these racial belief systems about a community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “We get complaints from across the county. If they do deeper probing, they will find it’s not isolated to Pittsburg and Antioch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Thorpe has previously faced criticism for seeking accountability for officer misconduct. In his written statement on Thursday, the mayor wrote: “Today’s arrests are demonstrative of the issues that have plagued the Antioch Police Department for decades. Seeking to reform the Antioch Police Department is not anti-police, it is pro our residents, and pro officers that have served and continue to serve with honor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters Annelise Finney, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Giuliana Salomone contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_32621","news_33041","news_425","news_27626","news_33040","news_21329","news_32002"],"featImg":"news_11958535","label":"news"},"news_11955299":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955299","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955299","score":null,"sort":[1689019720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","title":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End","publishDate":1689019720,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Investigators have hit a dead end in their investigation of a July 2022 incident in which gunfire caused nearly $6 million in damage to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">PG&E\u003c/a> substation near Bakersfield. It’s one of a string of unsolved acts of vandalism targeting the utility’s equipment in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act outline a probe by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office into the shooting at the Goose Lake substation, near the town of Wasco. The attack caused an outage that affected 1,100 customers, including gas stations and restaurants, at the busy interchange where State Route 46 crosses Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff’s investigation, those responsible for the incident cut a 4-inch hole in a chain-link fence surrounding the substation. Then, they fired 10 rounds from a shotgun and large-caliber handgun into two banks of transformers, puncturing a radiator and a tank filled with mineral oil used to insulate and cool the electrical equipment. The damaged tanks leaked about 5,000 gallons of oil onto the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hole in the fence lines up with the angles of the bullet holes in the equipment within the facility,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a department report. That discovery prompted the deputy to contact a colleague who works as the sheriff’s liaison with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of the shooting investigation are recounted in records released by the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition to a 29-page sheriff’s report, they include documents from the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County investigators could not identify suspects in the case or determine a motive for the attack. But their report notes that deputies and a PG&E worker, who arrived at the substation shortly after problems at the substation were reported, noticed a car abandoned about a quarter-mile away on Highway 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging electrical equipment connected to power lines.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E’s Goose Lake substation, near Wasco in Kern County, was attacked last July. A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has spent $2 million so far on ongoing repairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deputy who inspected the car, which had been stolen the day before the attack in the Kern County town of Shafter, found footprints that headed in the direction of the substation. But the tracks vanished after a short distance. Sheriff’s investigators were unable to connect either the car or the tracks to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about the case, a sheriff’s spokesperson said in an email late last month that the investigation “has been inactivated pending further leads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Matt Nauman, spokesperson, PG&E\"]‘We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities. Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E emphasized in reply to KQED’s question that it takes its responsibility seriously to ensure safety around its electrical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities,” said company spokesperson Matt Nauman in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nauman added that so far PG&E has spent $2 million on ongoing repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is one of several that have targeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891276/how-can-pge-navigate-rising-costs-extreme-weather-and-modernizing-the-grid\">PG&E’s electricity infrastructure\u003c/a> in the last year and comes amid an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891525/how-vulnerable-is-our-power-grid-2\">increase in attacks on power sites\u003c/a> throughout California and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, California utilities reported a total of 31 incidents of vandalism to their property from Jan. 1, 2022, through March 31 of this year. Another 14 incidents were classified as actual physical attacks on facilities or “suspicious activity” meant to degrade power operations. That compares with just three such incidents reported statewide in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal data indicates that only a handful of the reported incidents, like the one in Kern County, have resulted in power outages.[aside postID=news_11943157 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Untitled_Artwork-1020x765.jpg']Two months after the Kern County incident, someone shot and damaged nine PG&E transformers in rural Butte County, south of Chico. In late February, PG&E told the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office that it had recently discovered a transformer damaged by gunfire near the Sutter Bypass, southwest of Yuba City. FBI officials have said the agency is aware of all three incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely publicized recent attack on power facilities in Northern California came to light in March when San José police arrested a man they say set off bombs that damaged a pair of PG&E substations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents came nearly a decade after a sniper attack on a major PG&E transmission complex in South San José that caused serious damage. The April 2013 incident caused an estimated $15 million in damage, attracted national attention and prompted state legislation aimed at improving security for electricity infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"No suspects have been identified after gunfire caused $6 million in damage to a rural PG&E substation northwest of Bakersfield.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689019720,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":893},"headData":{"title":"Probe Into 2022 Attack on Kern County PG&E Facility Hits Dead End | KQED","description":"No suspects have been identified after gunfire caused $6 million in damage to a rural PG&E substation northwest of Bakersfield.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955299/probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Investigators have hit a dead end in their investigation of a July 2022 incident in which gunfire caused nearly $6 million in damage to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pge\">PG&E\u003c/a> substation near Bakersfield. It’s one of a string of unsolved acts of vandalism targeting the utility’s equipment in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents KQED obtained under the California Public Records Act outline a probe by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office into the shooting at the Goose Lake substation, near the town of Wasco. The attack caused an outage that affected 1,100 customers, including gas stations and restaurants, at the busy interchange where State Route 46 crosses Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the sheriff’s investigation, those responsible for the incident cut a 4-inch hole in a chain-link fence surrounding the substation. Then, they fired 10 rounds from a shotgun and large-caliber handgun into two banks of transformers, puncturing a radiator and a tank filled with mineral oil used to insulate and cool the electrical equipment. The damaged tanks leaked about 5,000 gallons of oil onto the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hole in the fence lines up with the angles of the bullet holes in the equipment within the facility,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in a department report. That discovery prompted the deputy to contact a colleague who works as the sheriff’s liaison with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of the shooting investigation are recounted in records released by the California Public Utilities Commission. In addition to a 29-page sheriff’s report, they include documents from the CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kern County investigators could not identify suspects in the case or determine a motive for the attack. But their report notes that deputies and a PG&E worker, who arrived at the substation shortly after problems at the substation were reported, noticed a car abandoned about a quarter-mile away on Highway 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging electrical equipment connected to power lines.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230707-PGE-ATTACK-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E’s Goose Lake substation, near Wasco in Kern County, was attacked last July. A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has spent $2 million so far on ongoing repairs. \u003ccite>(Courtesy California Public Utilities Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deputy who inspected the car, which had been stolen the day before the attack in the Kern County town of Shafter, found footprints that headed in the direction of the substation. But the tracks vanished after a short distance. Sheriff’s investigators were unable to connect either the car or the tracks to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about the case, a sheriff’s spokesperson said in an email late last month that the investigation “has been inactivated pending further leads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities. Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Matt Nauman, spokesperson, PG&E","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E emphasized in reply to KQED’s question that it takes its responsibility seriously to ensure safety around its electrical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have security measures in place, and we are constantly evaluating the security of all of our facilities,” said company spokesperson Matt Nauman in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nauman added that so far PG&E has spent $2 million on ongoing repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our forecast is that the total cost will be approximately $5.9 million,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is one of several that have targeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891276/how-can-pge-navigate-rising-costs-extreme-weather-and-modernizing-the-grid\">PG&E’s electricity infrastructure\u003c/a> in the last year and comes amid an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891525/how-vulnerable-is-our-power-grid-2\">increase in attacks on power sites\u003c/a> throughout California and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the U.S. Department of Energy, California utilities reported a total of 31 incidents of vandalism to their property from Jan. 1, 2022, through March 31 of this year. Another 14 incidents were classified as actual physical attacks on facilities or “suspicious activity” meant to degrade power operations. That compares with just three such incidents reported statewide in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal data indicates that only a handful of the reported incidents, like the one in Kern County, have resulted in power outages.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11943157","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Untitled_Artwork-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two months after the Kern County incident, someone shot and damaged nine PG&E transformers in rural Butte County, south of Chico. In late February, PG&E told the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office that it had recently discovered a transformer damaged by gunfire near the Sutter Bypass, southwest of Yuba City. FBI officials have said the agency is aware of all three incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most widely publicized recent attack on power facilities in Northern California came to light in March when San José police arrested a man they say set off bombs that damaged a pair of PG&E substations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents came nearly a decade after a sniper attack on a major PG&E transmission complex in South San José that caused serious damage. The April 2013 incident caused an estimated $15 million in damage, attracted national attention and prompted state legislation aimed at improving security for electricity infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955299/probe-into-2022-attack-on-kern-county-pge-facility-hits-dead-end","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_5563","news_18538","news_1066","news_20023","news_425","news_27626","news_20320","news_140","news_18541","news_32901","news_32902"],"featImg":"news_11955154","label":"news"},"news_11923588":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11923588","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11923588","score":null,"sort":[1661469622000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme","title":"Disgraced Former SF Public Works Chief Mohammed Nuru Sentenced to 7 Years for Bribery Scheme","publishDate":1661469622,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Disgraced Former SF Public Works Chief Mohammed Nuru Sentenced to 7 Years for Bribery Scheme | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years (84 months) in federal prison and three years of supervised release on Thursday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru’s sentencing, while expected, marks an important milestone in the years-long indictment of multiple San Francisco officials. The bribery scheme unveiled in January 2020 continued to snowball, ensnaring contractors, a restaurant owner and five city department heads.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the man known to be at the top of the FBI’s list, publicly at least, was Nuru.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"U.S. Northern District Judge William Orrick\"]‘If what you had done was a one-off occurrence, I would absolutely agree the leniency was called for, but you made the city’s decision-making and competitive bidding a farce.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expensive watches, international flights, extravagant dinners, even a John Deere tractor — Nuru took bribes of all sorts from contractors seeking multimillion-dollar contracts with the city, hoping to sway Nuru to give them a much-coveted rubber stamp. Nuru also attempted to bribe an airport contractor on behalf of a restaurateur who was his co-conspirator. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While much of his misdeeds were known, and Nuru pled guilty in January, the severity of Nuru’s punishment was unknown until Thursday when he heard the verdict in court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Northern District Judge William Orrick said Nuru’s sentence reflected how severely Nuru’s crimes as a public official breached public trust.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If what you had done was a one-off occurrence, I would absolutely agree the leniency was called for, but you made the city’s decision-making and competitive bidding a farce,” said Orrick. “By awarding [contractors] and favoring them in exchange for money, gifts, trips, a job for your son and construction for a home, a vacation home, what you’ve done is to question the fairness of every matter, every decision you made at DPW. During my time on the bench, I’ve sentenced people for really horrible things, gang murders, and really deadly stuff. In many ways, what you’ve done is at least as reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal government initially sought nine years’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a $35,000 fine for Nuru. Nuru’s attorneys argued for a three-year sentence and the forfeit of his property.\u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11899657,news_11849988,news_11801734\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“Mohammed Nuru knows and accepts to his core that the conduct he engaged in was wrong, it was prolonged, and it is inexcusable,” said Miles Ehrlich, Nuru’s attorney. “It was a breach of the trust placed in him by the citizens of San Francisco, his co-workers, and his friends. In the public’s mind, it will overshadow any of the good he did in his life as a public servant, and perhaps Mr. Nuru knows deep down, it should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ehrlich also argued that Nuru deserved a lighter sentence, citing Nuru’s poor health from diabetes, a recent heart attack and two surgeries for heart problems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, U.S. Attorney Alexandra Shepard argued that Nuru lied and laundered money for years. When he was caught, he spent days, almost a week, sabotaging the investigation by notifying people under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is who he is,” said Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office sought a particularly harsh sentence for Nuru since, after the FBI quietly arrested him in January 2020, Nuru leaked the investigation to multiple people. In doing so he “caused incalculable damage to the investigation,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a sentencing memo a week before Nuru’s sentencing date, saying the leak tipped off potential targets and jeopardized the FBI’s ability to obtain evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A substantial sentence would send a message to other public officials that using their office for their own personal benefit will result in significant jail time,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, Nuru’s attorney wrote that Nuru regrets his wrongdoing, and “Mohammed Nuru apologizes to the people of San Francisco, to this Court, and to his family and friends for violating the public trust.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His corrupt acts don’t represent “the whole of him,” they argued, adding that Nuru has taught marginalized and incarcerated youth how to farm, and provided education and training jobs in his role at the Public Works department. They also argued Nuru raised five children as a single parent after his ex-wife became addicted to drugs, and that he helps financially support them and his elderly parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the U.S. Attorney’s Office argued Nuru did not commit these crimes out of financial hardship, citing his $278,586 annual salary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the FBI’s revelations, Nuru’s nickname of “Mr. Clean,” so-given for his department’s efforts to spit shine the city, proved to be the height of irony. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. Attorney’s Office described Nuru’s scheme as “a tale of greed as old as time.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said Nuru “shook down” contractors for more then a million dollars in cash, goods and services over a 12-year period. Much of those ill-gotten gains went to paying for his ranch in Stonyford, California. That ranch was a cash cow for contractors seeking to influence Nuru: He gave them favorable treatment in city contracts after they custom-built and furnished it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru also often sought the help of contractors to buttress his San Francisco home; a city contractor did such work for free in 2008, when Nuru was a deputy director of the Department of Public Works. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nuru was the quintessential grifter, using his position at DPW to enrich himself in a multitude of ways,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru was far from alone in his crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed their explosive allegations against Nuru in January 2020, one by one new San Francisco officials were accused of taking bribes, and prominent community members well-known to San Francisco politicos for their charitable good deeds were revealed to be in on the scheme. Most have already pled guilty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Nuru was first taken in, the federal government has indicted the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Harlan Kelly, and the head of the Mayor’s Office’s “fix-it team,” Sandra Zuniga, in related bribery schemes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru, Kelly and Zuniga all worked under Mayor London Breed, and Breed counted Nuru, Kelly and Kelly’s wife, Naomi Kelly, as long-time friends and allies for years. Naomi Kelly resigned as city administrator following her husband’s arrest, although she wasn’t charged; Carmen Chu took her place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breed publicly revealed she once counted Nuru as a romantic partner, and a\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> few weeks after Nuru was charged by the FBI, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883654/sf-mayor-london-breed-agrees-to-23k-fine-for-ethics-breach\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">she acknowledged in a statement that Nuru had paid for expenses involving repairs to her car in 2019\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Last year she agreed to pay an $8,292 fine for accepting that gift.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Nuru’s arrest, Breed has sought to distance herself from Nuru. Breed and the City Controller’s Office also have sought to plug the holes in city law that allowed much of the bribery under their noses to take place. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Co-conspirators of Nuru, construction contractor Walter Wong and Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant owner Nick Bovis, also were indicted by the federal government. Wong helped connect now-indicted officials to a luxury developer who sought to bribe them, and Wong himself admitted to bribing officials for contracts. Bovis set up a fake baseball charity that funneled bribes to Nuru so he could shower his employees with extravagant parties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other city contractors also were indicted for bribing Nuru: Balmore Hernandez, Alan Varela and Bill Gilmartin all provided workers and equipment to help build or improve Nuru’s ranch. Hernandez, Varela and Gilmartin gifted Nuru with a John Deere tractor worth $40,000. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul Fredrick Giusti, working for waste management company Recology, gave Nuru a “continuous stream” of money and benefits. He allegedly funneled over $1 million in bribes from Recology, through restaurateur Nick Bovis’ baseball charity, to Nuru. Giusti also found jobs for Nuru’s son. In return, Nuru allegedly gave Recology favorable treatment in setting garbage rates and securing millions of dollars in city contracts. City Attorney Dennis Herrera reached an agreement with Recology in March 2021 to reimburse $95 million in improperly charged garbage bills set under Nuru’s purview.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All have pled guilty, save Kelly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, in an effort related to the federal investigation, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office also accused former San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Director Tom Hui of taking an inappropriate dinner with a luxury housing developer who wished to curry favor with the department. Hui resigned after the allegations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years (84 months) in federal prison and three years of supervised release on Thursday. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689376308,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1564},"headData":{"title":"Disgraced Former SF Public Works Chief Mohammed Nuru Sentenced to 7 Years for Bribery Scheme | KQED","description":"Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years (84 months) in federal prison and three years of supervised release on Thursday. 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The bribery scheme unveiled in January 2020 continued to snowball, ensnaring contractors, a restaurant owner and five city department heads.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the man known to be at the top of the FBI’s list, publicly at least, was Nuru.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If what you had done was a one-off occurrence, I would absolutely agree the leniency was called for, but you made the city’s decision-making and competitive bidding a farce.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"U.S. Northern District Judge William Orrick","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expensive watches, international flights, extravagant dinners, even a John Deere tractor — Nuru took bribes of all sorts from contractors seeking multimillion-dollar contracts with the city, hoping to sway Nuru to give them a much-coveted rubber stamp. Nuru also attempted to bribe an airport contractor on behalf of a restaurateur who was his co-conspirator. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While much of his misdeeds were known, and Nuru pled guilty in January, the severity of Nuru’s punishment was unknown until Thursday when he heard the verdict in court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Northern District Judge William Orrick said Nuru’s sentence reflected how severely Nuru’s crimes as a public official breached public trust.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If what you had done was a one-off occurrence, I would absolutely agree the leniency was called for, but you made the city’s decision-making and competitive bidding a farce,” said Orrick. “By awarding [contractors] and favoring them in exchange for money, gifts, trips, a job for your son and construction for a home, a vacation home, what you’ve done is to question the fairness of every matter, every decision you made at DPW. During my time on the bench, I’ve sentenced people for really horrible things, gang murders, and really deadly stuff. In many ways, what you’ve done is at least as reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal government initially sought nine years’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a $35,000 fine for Nuru. Nuru’s attorneys argued for a three-year sentence and the forfeit of his property.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11899657,news_11849988,news_11801734","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Mohammed Nuru knows and accepts to his core that the conduct he engaged in was wrong, it was prolonged, and it is inexcusable,” said Miles Ehrlich, Nuru’s attorney. “It was a breach of the trust placed in him by the citizens of San Francisco, his co-workers, and his friends. In the public’s mind, it will overshadow any of the good he did in his life as a public servant, and perhaps Mr. Nuru knows deep down, it should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ehrlich also argued that Nuru deserved a lighter sentence, citing Nuru’s poor health from diabetes, a recent heart attack and two surgeries for heart problems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, U.S. Attorney Alexandra Shepard argued that Nuru lied and laundered money for years. When he was caught, he spent days, almost a week, sabotaging the investigation by notifying people under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is who he is,” said Shepard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office sought a particularly harsh sentence for Nuru since, after the FBI quietly arrested him in January 2020, Nuru leaked the investigation to multiple people. In doing so he “caused incalculable damage to the investigation,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a sentencing memo a week before Nuru’s sentencing date, saying the leak tipped off potential targets and jeopardized the FBI’s ability to obtain evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A substantial sentence would send a message to other public officials that using their office for their own personal benefit will result in significant jail time,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response, Nuru’s attorney wrote that Nuru regrets his wrongdoing, and “Mohammed Nuru apologizes to the people of San Francisco, to this Court, and to his family and friends for violating the public trust.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His corrupt acts don’t represent “the whole of him,” they argued, adding that Nuru has taught marginalized and incarcerated youth how to farm, and provided education and training jobs in his role at the Public Works department. They also argued Nuru raised five children as a single parent after his ex-wife became addicted to drugs, and that he helps financially support them and his elderly parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the U.S. Attorney’s Office argued Nuru did not commit these crimes out of financial hardship, citing his $278,586 annual salary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the FBI’s revelations, Nuru’s nickname of “Mr. Clean,” so-given for his department’s efforts to spit shine the city, proved to be the height of irony. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The U.S. Attorney’s Office described Nuru’s scheme as “a tale of greed as old as time.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They said Nuru “shook down” contractors for more then a million dollars in cash, goods and services over a 12-year period. Much of those ill-gotten gains went to paying for his ranch in Stonyford, California. That ranch was a cash cow for contractors seeking to influence Nuru: He gave them favorable treatment in city contracts after they custom-built and furnished it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru also often sought the help of contractors to buttress his San Francisco home; a city contractor did such work for free in 2008, when Nuru was a deputy director of the Department of Public Works. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Nuru was the quintessential grifter, using his position at DPW to enrich himself in a multitude of ways,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru was far from alone in his crimes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office revealed their explosive allegations against Nuru in January 2020, one by one new San Francisco officials were accused of taking bribes, and prominent community members well-known to San Francisco politicos for their charitable good deeds were revealed to be in on the scheme. Most have already pled guilty. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Nuru was first taken in, the federal government has indicted the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Harlan Kelly, and the head of the Mayor’s Office’s “fix-it team,” Sandra Zuniga, in related bribery schemes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nuru, Kelly and Zuniga all worked under Mayor London Breed, and Breed counted Nuru, Kelly and Kelly’s wife, Naomi Kelly, as long-time friends and allies for years. Naomi Kelly resigned as city administrator following her husband’s arrest, although she wasn’t charged; Carmen Chu took her place.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breed publicly revealed she once counted Nuru as a romantic partner, and a\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> few weeks after Nuru was charged by the FBI, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883654/sf-mayor-london-breed-agrees-to-23k-fine-for-ethics-breach\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">she acknowledged in a statement that Nuru had paid for expenses involving repairs to her car in 2019\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Last year she agreed to pay an $8,292 fine for accepting that gift.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Nuru’s arrest, Breed has sought to distance herself from Nuru. Breed and the City Controller’s Office also have sought to plug the holes in city law that allowed much of the bribery under their noses to take place. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Co-conspirators of Nuru, construction contractor Walter Wong and Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant owner Nick Bovis, also were indicted by the federal government. Wong helped connect now-indicted officials to a luxury developer who sought to bribe them, and Wong himself admitted to bribing officials for contracts. Bovis set up a fake baseball charity that funneled bribes to Nuru so he could shower his employees with extravagant parties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other city contractors also were indicted for bribing Nuru: Balmore Hernandez, Alan Varela and Bill Gilmartin all provided workers and equipment to help build or improve Nuru’s ranch. Hernandez, Varela and Gilmartin gifted Nuru with a John Deere tractor worth $40,000. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul Fredrick Giusti, working for waste management company Recology, gave Nuru a “continuous stream” of money and benefits. He allegedly funneled over $1 million in bribes from Recology, through restaurateur Nick Bovis’ baseball charity, to Nuru. Giusti also found jobs for Nuru’s son. In return, Nuru allegedly gave Recology favorable treatment in setting garbage rates and securing millions of dollars in city contracts. City Attorney Dennis Herrera reached an agreement with Recology in March 2021 to reimburse $95 million in improperly charged garbage bills set under Nuru’s purview.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All have pled guilty, save Kelly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, in an effort related to the federal investigation, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office also accused former San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Director Tom Hui of taking an inappropriate dinner with a luxury housing developer who wished to curry favor with the department. Hui resigned after the allegations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press contributed to this report. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_25196","news_425","news_27626","news_27404","news_28545","news_31507"],"featImg":"news_11923604","label":"news"},"news_11915379":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915379","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915379","score":null,"sort":[1653856560000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"napa-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-ca-democratic-party-headquarters","title":"Napa Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Destroy CA Democratic Party Headquarters","publishDate":1653856560,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of two men \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">charged with plotting to destroy the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a> last year pled guilty to conspiracy and other related charges Friday in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Rogers joined the hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco via video feed from the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin where he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers pled guilty to conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possession of unregistered destructive devices and possession of a machine gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plea deal Rogers agreed to Friday, he faces seven to nine years in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release and $250,000 in fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his 2021 arrest, Rogers owned British Auto Repair of the Napa Valley, and was known as a larger-than-life figure in the nearby business community. He was often seen lifting weights at a local gym with his friend and former employee Jarrod Copeland, who is a co-defendant in the case. Rogers posted pictures of himself on social media dressed in fatigues, and photos of his fast cars and his many guns, according to people who knew him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland planned to burn down the California Democratic Party headquarters building in Sacramento in text messages from November 2020. \u003ccite>(Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez/Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But others saw a more dangerous side to Rogers. In the fall of 2020, an anonymous tipster alerted the FBI and local law enforcement that Rogers was heavily armed and had threatened to kill someone. This person also said that Rogers was an outspoken supporter of then-president Donald Trump and might follow through on his threats if Trump lost the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers was arrested Jan. 15, 2021, after a joint task force found five pipe bombs in a safe at his auto shop and materials to build more explosives. Detectives also searched Roger’s Napa home and RV. All together they found roughly 50 guns in his possession, including machine guns and several guns that had been illegally modified to fire automatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities also seized Rogers' cellphone and discovered encrypted messages exchanged with his friend and former employee, Jarrod Copeland, discussing how to destroy the Democratic Party’s state headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland was taken into custody in Sacramento six months after Rogers. The 38-year-old pled no contest to conspiracy and destruction of records in an official proceeding, but the court has not yet set a sentencing date.[aside postID=\"news_11913965\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued a statement Friday describing the facts supporting charges against Rogers and Copeland for conspiring to destroy the California State Democratic Party headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rogers admitted in his plea agreement to viewing the building on the internet and sending a map of the location to Copeland,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds wrote. “The men also admitted to discussing the building’s proximity to a fire department and certain law enforcement in devising their plan, using that information to refine the method of attack to ensure they caused the greatest damage to the building while allowing their escape without detection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before accepting Rogers' plea agreement, Judge Charles R. Breyer asked Rogers whether he believed that the government could prove his guilt based on the evidence gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers hesitated, then answered, “I can see how a jury would believe what the government is saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added that the plea agreement “doesn’t say anything about when I said those things, but I agree that I did communicate with my friend about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland have insisted their online discussion to blow up the building in Sacramento was just drunken banter and that they never intended to hurt anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1.jpg\" alt=\"Missing from the caption description is that only Rogers' and Copeland's faces are not blurred; four additional people, three women and two men, have their faces blurred. Everyone in the picture is smiling, standing indoors under overhead lighting against a wood-paneled wall. Copeland has his arm around the woman standing in front of him, who holds his hand at her waist. Everyone is dressed casually, in T-shirts, tank tops, sunglasses, and baseball caps.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1536x1187.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot posted to a now-defunct Facebook group shows Jarrod Copeland (back, left) and Ian Rogers (back, right) at a barbecue that members of 3UP, a 'prepper group,' attended. Copeland and Rogers are in federal custody, accused of plotting a mass casualty event. 3UP claimed to be a social club not affiliated with any militia groups such as the Three Percenters. One attendee (front, right) wears a shirt with the Three Percenters symbol on it (13 stars around a Roman numeral III) and holds up just three fingers of his left hand. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers had asked to read a statement at Friday's hearing, according to his attorney Collin Cooper, but the judge denied the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has accepted responsibility for his actions,” Cooper said, “and is seeking a chance for redemption and a chance, once he pays this penalty, to move forward with his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney expects Rogers will be given an opportunity to speak at his sentencing on September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed that Rogers may serve his federal sentence concurrently with a potential state sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District Attorney of Napa County charged Rogers with 28 felony counts, including conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons. That case is expected to move forward after Rogers receives his federal sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combatting a national rise in domestic violent extremist activity has become one of the FBI's top priorities, according to Jon Blair, the assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism at the FBI’s San Francisco field office, which investigated Rogers and Copeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\"Anti-government anti-authority extremism is our highest-ranked threat right now, very closely followed by racially motivated violent extremists,\" Blair told KQED in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Hall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The US Attorney's Office said Ian Rogers plotted to cause the greatest amount of damage possible to the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654034160,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":940},"headData":{"title":"Napa Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Destroy CA Democratic Party Headquarters | KQED","description":"The US Attorney's Office said Ian Rogers plotted to cause the greatest amount of damage possible to the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11915379 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11915379","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/29/napa-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-ca-democratic-party-headquarters/","disqusTitle":"Napa Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Destroy CA Democratic Party Headquarters","subhead":"Machine Guns, Pipe Bombs and a Plan to Attack Democrats ","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11915379/napa-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-ca-democratic-party-headquarters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of two men \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">charged with plotting to destroy the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a> last year pled guilty to conspiracy and other related charges Friday in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Rogers joined the hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco via video feed from the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin where he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers pled guilty to conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possession of unregistered destructive devices and possession of a machine gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the plea deal Rogers agreed to Friday, he faces seven to nine years in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release and $250,000 in fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before his 2021 arrest, Rogers owned British Auto Repair of the Napa Valley, and was known as a larger-than-life figure in the nearby business community. He was often seen lifting weights at a local gym with his friend and former employee Jarrod Copeland, who is a co-defendant in the case. Rogers posted pictures of himself on social media dressed in fatigues, and photos of his fast cars and his many guns, according to people who knew him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland planned to burn down the California Democratic Party headquarters building in Sacramento in text messages from November 2020. \u003ccite>(Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez/Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But others saw a more dangerous side to Rogers. In the fall of 2020, an anonymous tipster alerted the FBI and local law enforcement that Rogers was heavily armed and had threatened to kill someone. This person also said that Rogers was an outspoken supporter of then-president Donald Trump and might follow through on his threats if Trump lost the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers was arrested Jan. 15, 2021, after a joint task force found five pipe bombs in a safe at his auto shop and materials to build more explosives. Detectives also searched Roger’s Napa home and RV. All together they found roughly 50 guns in his possession, including machine guns and several guns that had been illegally modified to fire automatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities also seized Rogers' cellphone and discovered encrypted messages exchanged with his friend and former employee, Jarrod Copeland, discussing how to destroy the Democratic Party’s state headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland was taken into custody in Sacramento six months after Rogers. The 38-year-old pled no contest to conspiracy and destruction of records in an official proceeding, but the court has not yet set a sentencing date.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11913965","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued a statement Friday describing the facts supporting charges against Rogers and Copeland for conspiring to destroy the California State Democratic Party headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rogers admitted in his plea agreement to viewing the building on the internet and sending a map of the location to Copeland,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds wrote. “The men also admitted to discussing the building’s proximity to a fire department and certain law enforcement in devising their plan, using that information to refine the method of attack to ensure they caused the greatest damage to the building while allowing their escape without detection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before accepting Rogers' plea agreement, Judge Charles R. Breyer asked Rogers whether he believed that the government could prove his guilt based on the evidence gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers hesitated, then answered, “I can see how a jury would believe what the government is saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added that the plea agreement “doesn’t say anything about when I said those things, but I agree that I did communicate with my friend about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland have insisted their online discussion to blow up the building in Sacramento was just drunken banter and that they never intended to hurt anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914097\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1.jpg\" alt=\"Missing from the caption description is that only Rogers' and Copeland's faces are not blurred; four additional people, three women and two men, have their faces blurred. Everyone in the picture is smiling, standing indoors under overhead lighting against a wood-paneled wall. Copeland has his arm around the woman standing in front of him, who holds his hand at her waist. Everyone is dressed casually, in T-shirts, tank tops, sunglasses, and baseball caps.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-800x618.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-160x124.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/200809-IIIUP-BBQ-JarrodCopeland-IanRogers-AndSpouses-at-source-FB-post-1-1536x1187.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot posted to a now-defunct Facebook group shows Jarrod Copeland (back, left) and Ian Rogers (back, right) at a barbecue that members of 3UP, a 'prepper group,' attended. Copeland and Rogers are in federal custody, accused of plotting a mass casualty event. 3UP claimed to be a social club not affiliated with any militia groups such as the Three Percenters. One attendee (front, right) wears a shirt with the Three Percenters symbol on it (13 stars around a Roman numeral III) and holds up just three fingers of his left hand. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers had asked to read a statement at Friday's hearing, according to his attorney Collin Cooper, but the judge denied the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has accepted responsibility for his actions,” Cooper said, “and is seeking a chance for redemption and a chance, once he pays this penalty, to move forward with his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney expects Rogers will be given an opportunity to speak at his sentencing on September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the plea deal, federal prosecutors agreed that Rogers may serve his federal sentence concurrently with a potential state sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The District Attorney of Napa County charged Rogers with 28 felony counts, including conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons. That case is expected to move forward after Rogers receives his federal sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combatting a national rise in domestic violent extremist activity has become one of the FBI's top priorities, according to Jon Blair, the assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism at the FBI’s San Francisco field office, which investigated Rogers and Copeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\"Anti-government anti-authority extremism is our highest-ranked threat right now, very closely followed by racially motivated violent extremists,\" Blair told KQED in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Hall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915379/napa-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiring-to-destroy-ca-democratic-party-headquarters","authors":["6625"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_27508","news_28383","news_52","news_17725","news_30758","news_29027","news_425"],"featImg":"news_11914001","label":"news"},"news_11913965":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11913965","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11913965","score":null,"sort":[1652698941000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight","title":"Plot to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters Exposed California Extremists Hiding in Plain Sight","publishDate":1652698941,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ears before law enforcement seized the contents of Ian Rogers’ safe, he earned a reputation as a talented mechanic and successful Napa Valley business owner. Rogers catered to an elite clientele of Jaguar, Land Rover and Rolls-Royce owners inside a garage off Napa’s main drag, a street spotted with boutiques and high-end bed and breakfasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 47-year-old from Sonoma County, who appeared to have a passion for guns, according to Facebook posts where he dissed prominent Democrats, was also a loving husband and father who paid his bills on time, according to his family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, in the weeks after Joe Biden was declared the next president of the United States, Rogers sent an ominous text to someone he trusted, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok bro we need to hit the enemy in the mouth,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">he messaged\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah so we punch Soros,” Rogers’ former employee and gym buddy, Jarrod Copeland, texted back, referring to billionaire investor George Soros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland, a Kentucky native, had been a mechanic at Rogers’ shop nearly a decade earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think right now we attack democrats. They’re offices etc. Molotov cocktails and gasoline,” Rogers continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland replied, “We need more people bro. Gonna be hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Thanksgiving, the chatter kindled a plan. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">Text messages contained in court records\u003c/a> show the two men agreed to burn down the headquarters of the California Democratic Party in Sacramento, a building diagonal to the California Highway Patrol office tasked with protecting state lawmakers and daily visitors to the Capitol. Also nearby: a youth center, a gym and a popular bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party office…\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Right next to CHP\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: gotta be cautious\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Only takes 3 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The two men texted that they hoped hitting that particular target would send a message and ignite a movement. They viewed themselves as action-film heroes, referencing “The Expendables,” a popular movie franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Scare the whole country\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Can you imagine cnn covering this haha !\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: I’ll leave a envelope with our demands and intentions\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Basically saying we declare war on the Democratic Party and all traitors to the republic.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: That’s some expendables stuff.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: We need to send a message\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Yep I agree\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Start a movement\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, 2021, the two acknowledged they might die carrying out their plan. Rogers asked Copeland if he was ready to leave his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: What I’m talking about we probably will die unfortunately\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: She was crying yesterday and said to me “please don’t leave me I don’t know what to do without you” she was rubbing my back while I was watching...\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: She knows how i run and she knows I will put myself in harms way for what I believe in\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It never came to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland were arrested in January and July of 2021, respectively, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are charged in federal court with conspiracy to destroy by fire or explosive a building used in interstate commerce, with Copeland facing an additional charge of destruction of records in official proceedings for allegedly destroying evidence of his communication with Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg\" alt=\"entrance of California Democratic Party headquarters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland planned to burn down the California Democratic Party headquarters building in Sacramento in text messages in November 2020. \u003ccite>(Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez/Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Napa County District Attorney’s Office also is prosecuting Rogers, for 28 felony counts over the numerous pipe bombs, and unregistered assault rifles authorities allegedly discovered inside his business, home and RV. He is also being charged with converting firearms into machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case goes to trial, Rogers faces a statutory maximum of 45 years in prison. Copeland faces a statutory maximum of 25 years, if convicted on all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys have been negotiating plea bargains over their alleged involvement for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland has entered a no-contest plea and is awaiting sentencing, his attorney, John Ambrosio, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to pay his debt and he’s taken responsibility,” Ambrosio added. “And we’re just waiting to see exactly what his punishment is going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part of a surge in domestic extremism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland’s case is part of a surge in violent extremist activity the FBI is investigating in Northern California and throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/html/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2331.htm\">defines domestic terrorism\u003c/a> as “acts dangerous to human life” that violate state or federal criminal law, and appear to be an attempt to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the spring of 2020, the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic extremists has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just over a year after hundreds of people stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the presidential election, the DOJ announced it was creating a special unit to address “the threat posed by domestic extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department arrested and charged more than 725 people for their alleged involvement in the insurrection. KQED found that at least 40 were from California, including Evan Neumann, a Mill Valley resident charged with 14 counts, including assaulting Capitol police. Neumann fled to Europe, crossing through prewar Ukraine and successfully claiming asylum in Belarus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/evan-neumann-belarus-capitol-riot-asylum-ukraine/\">according to The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11904864 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Carrillo-van-oakland-1020x631.jpg']In February, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base allegedly aligned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/27/who-are-boogaloos-who-were-visible-capitol-and-later-rallies\">boogaloo\u003c/a> adherents in Turlock, part of a loose-knit anti-government group trying to ignite a civil war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904864/ex-air-force-sergeant-pleads-guilty-to-killing-federal-guard-in-oakland-during-george-floyd-protests\">entered a guilty plea\u003c/a> for gunning down a federal officer in Oakland during a 2020 protest over police violence. He's also accused of murdering a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just last month, an Orange County man was arrested for allegedly threatening to bomb the headquarters of Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publisher, because he was upset by the company’s definition of “female.” According to The Washington Post, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/25/merriam-webster-gender-death-threats/\">the man has allegedly been sending threatening messages since 2014\u003c/a>, and the FBI interviewed him in 2015 and in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid growing concerns of potential extremist violence, the FBI and local police \u003ca href=\"https://account.modbee.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=259694010&intcid=ab_archive\">recently held a town hall in Modesto\u003c/a>, urging residents to report possible domestic extremist threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>United by rage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand why two Bay Area men allegedly conspired to blow up a Sacramento building, KQED’s reporters visited the places where Rogers and Copeland worked, reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and public records and interviewed more than a dozen people, including family members. Copeland and Rogers' attorneys refused requests to interview their clients, pending a final decision in their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What emerged is a portrait of friends united by rage who found community within an obscure anti-government militia. But one kept his affiliation quiet, while the other proudly displayed his allegiance with a bumper sticker on his truck. Together, they allegedly hatched a violent plan that they hoped would spark more violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Blair, the assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism at the FBI’s San Francisco field office, which investigated Rogers and Copeland, would not comment on the case, but said it’s not just the number of incidents that has gone up in California, but also the number of people involved and the severity of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are actors who are predisposed towards these acts of violence, who are violating federal law and who are adhering to ideology,” Blair said. “They didn’t just come into existence after 2020, right? I do think they were a little more emboldened now because the rhetoric has become so pervasive and so loud in our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Blair, FBI assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism\"]'We are getting more reports from individuals who happen to be near people who are spewing the ideology and taking steps towards ... violent acts, saying, 'No, not here, not on my turf, not around me.'[/pullquote]The Southern Poverty Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map\">which tracks hate groups throughout the country\u003c/a>, has identified 45 currently active anti-government groups in California, including four militias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, chapters of other groups — including III% United Patriots, III% Defense Militia, California Three Percenters, the original Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and West Coast Patriots — all have been active in California, according to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland joined one of those, according to court records and screenshots obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21474115-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">Rogers told law enforcement\u003c/a> he was a member of a “prepper group” called 3UP, a California offshoot of the Three Percenters, court filings show. Detectives also found a bumper sticker on one of Rogers’ vehicles of the III% symbol: three lines encircled by 13 stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Three Percenters, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, represent a sub-ideology of the broader anti-government militia movement, and some California members were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/three-percenters-militia-members-charged-us-capitol-attack-2021-06-10/\">charged for participating in the January 6 insurrection\u003c/a>. Three Percenters believe the unproven assertion that just 3% of colonists defeated the English during the American Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3UP claimed to be a social club not affiliated with any militia, according to Facebook screenshots. When a reporter reached one member in Milpitas by phone, he said “no comment” and hung up the phone. Calls to a number of other members were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland also was a member of 3UP, according to prosecutors. Screenshots of a now-defunct private Facebook group for Bay Area members showed Copeland as a member. A photograph posted to the page on Aug. 9, 2020, showed Rogers and Copeland with their wives at a barbecue that other members of 3UP attended, according to a screenshot shared with a KQED reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s nothing illegal about socializing with members of a so-called “prepper group,” purchasing tactical equipment and believing the government should be overthrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FBI’s strategy for combatting terrorism focuses on thwarting attacks before they happen — a concept the agency refers to as “left of boom” — the agency cannot interfere with people exercising their constitutional rights to voice their anger at elected officials and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Blair said, the agency does not investigate groups — only individuals who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t care what you believe, because we’re not allowed to care what you believe, no matter how reprehensible those beliefs may be,” said Blair. “It’s only if your beliefs or your ideology are motivating you to commit an act of violence — that’s when you would suddenly become of concern to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said the FBI relies on tips to identify potential threats. He thinks more people are reporting extreme rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are looking left and right and realizing that this is not necessarily the world we want to live in,” Blair surmised. “I think we are getting more reports from individuals who happen to be near people who are spewing the ideology and taking steps towards those violent acts, saying, ‘No, not here, not on my turf, not around me.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A 'one-man militia'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An anonymous tipster urged the FBI to look into Rogers’ behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED reporter was able to contact the individual who reported Rogers and confirm that the two had once been friends. According to the tipster, they shared a love for exotic cars and guns and had both voted for Donald Trump in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in 2019, Rogers began to threaten violence, often seething with rage and lashing out at people around him, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle.jpg\" alt=\"man wearing military fatigues and sunglasses outdoors smiles as he holds what appears to be an assault rifle\" width=\"1125\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle.jpg 1125w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-800x669.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-1020x853.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-160x134.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This screenshot from Facebook of Ian Rogers holding a rifle was included on an SD card an informer provided to the FBI in September 2020. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The informer began documenting Rogers’ behavior. In September of 2020, he mailed an envelope to the San Francisco field office of the FBI. Inside was an SD card with screenshots of Rogers’ social media posts and a video of Rogers firing an AK-47 at a shooting range previously owned by Craig Bock, a prominent member of the Three Percenter movement, according to a lawsuit filed by Bock’s family after county officials revoked their lease for the shooting range, and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-county-gun-club-twin-sisters-three-percenters/\">reporting by The Vallejo Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tipster also emailed the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, warning that Rogers was “deranged” and “a one-man militia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following excerpt from the tipster’s email \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21474115-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">was contained in a Napa County Superior Court filing\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014620-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11914074\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1638\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM.png 1638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-800x475.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-1020x605.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1638px) 100vw, 1638px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI jointly investigated Rogers, according to a declaration by a county detective filed as part of a motion opposing Rogers’ bail. In November of 2020, authorities learned that Rogers had sold his home in American Canyon, a city about 10 miles south of Napa, and was flush with cash, according to the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 15, just nine days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sheriff’s deputies detained Rogers at a traffic stop in downtown Napa and served him with search warrants for his home and auto-repair shop, according to court papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a safe in Rogers’ office, law enforcement discovered five brick-sized pipe bombs, along with raw materials “that could be used to manufacture destructive devices, including black powder, pipes, endcaps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22012703-210126-usa-v-rogers-complaint\">according to a federal criminal complaint\u003c/a>. There was “a Nazi flag and a Nazi dagger with markings from the Elite SS in Hitler’s army,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22011350-210510-rogers-napa-da-motion-to-deny-bail\">according to a separate court filing\u003c/a>. The safe also contained a “White Privilege Card,” according to an FBI affidavit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22012703-210126-usa-v-rogers-complaint\">federal complaint\u003c/a> against Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the 'White Privilege Card' found in Ian Rogers' safe, included in the federal complaint against him. \u003ccite>(U.S. District Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a storage closet, deputies found, according to records, “numerous rifles, including some that were fully automatic and some that had been modified to operate as machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also found seven manuals on bomb making and survival tactics, including one called “The Anarchist Cookbook” and another titled “Homemade C-4,” an explosive material; approximately 15,000 rounds of ammunition; a homemade silencer; and “go bags” with body armor and bulletproof face shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens more guns were found, unsecured, inside his home and RV. All told, officers collected 54 guns — including eight assault weapons considered illegal in California, according to the Napa County District Attorney. Rogers was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers’ friends and family said he liked to pump iron, shoot semi-automatic rifles and drive fast cars. They also commented that he had used steroids to bulk up his 5’11” frame to 200 pounds in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2021/07/16/napa-man-with-white-privilege-card-and-accomplice/\">Facebook photo that went viral after his arrest\u003c/a>, Rogers sits at the wheel of his DeLorean, the gull-wing door raised, his muscular arms bulging under a cutoff T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean.jpg\" alt=\"man wearing camo shirt with bare arms and visible Nazi-esque eagle tattoo sits at wheel of Delorean car with door open\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers sits at the wheel of his DeLorean in a Facebook photo that went viral after his arrest in 2021. The photo shows his tattoo resembling a Nazi eagle. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers has a tattoo on his upper left arm of an eagle that resembles the Nazi eagle, which he made no effort to hide. He is wearing camouflage fatigues and his hair is cropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers learned how to fix cars in his father’s repair shop in Sonoma County when he was young. In 2005, he and his first wife, Julie Crisci, opened British Auto Repair in Napa. Rogers catered to wine country residents of diverse ethnic backgrounds who praised his mechanical skills and professionalism in dozens of online reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two witnesses told KQED they heard Rogers use racist slurs to refer to clients. Those individuals said he expressed rage toward people of other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A longtime Napa resident, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, described one of Rogers’ tirades: “He was just stomping around, you know, ‘these mother****ing’ — you know, dropping N-bombs — ‘with their stupid’ — just like, like flexing, just flipping out. Other times you just hear him screaming about whatever — the Jews or, you know, Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Rogers told people he named his German shepherd “Fritz” after Hitler’s personal dog handler, Fritz Tornow. Rogers also built a working MG 42, a machine gun that Allied troops nicknamed “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” because of the noise it made spewing 1,200-1,500 rounds of ammunition per minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a bad dude,” the Napa resident said. “He’s going to get what he deserves, hopefully. But, he’ll also be some sort of martyr for extremists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs-160x101.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The five pipe bombs seized at Rogers' auto repair shop 'were fully operational and could cause great bodily harm or injury,' according to a Napa County Sheriff's Office bomb technician in the federal complaint against Rogers. \u003ccite>(US District Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22011730-210120-rogers-crisci-texts-exhibit2\">used racist slurs to describe his former Asian American neighbors in text messages to Crisci\u003c/a> that were included in court filings. On Sept. 16, 2019, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate this town I’ll be happier away from the [N-word]. I’m sick of my stupid [racist slur for people of Korean descent] neighbors. I can’t forgive them for calling the cops on my numerous times over bullshit. Neighbors should have your back and they are backstabbers. Typical Asian assholes, they only care about themselvs and they’re families. I hate Asians they are rude and dishonest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A business acquaintance of Rogers said he never heard him use racist language. Cliff Marden, who sold auto-repair tools to Rogers for over a decade, described his client as opinionated, but not violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ian is not a terrorist by any means. He’s not a threat to the public,” Marden said when reached by phone. “He was a businessman and he was an outstanding person and individual of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marden said Rogers got in trouble because he said the wrong things at the wrong time, but never would have acted on those threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had too much to lose to do something like that,” Marden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers has a young son from his first marriage, and had recently remarried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who answered the door at Rogers’ last known address confirmed she had married him a year and a half earlier. Yuliia Rogers said she met her husband online and that he came to see her in her native Ukraine three times before they married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very wonderful,” she said, smiling as she reminisced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuliia Rogers said she now reminds her husband of that time with a photograph “to keep him positive” while he’s incarcerated. She said her husband had been collecting guns for 20 years and that it was his “passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not believe he was capable of violence and never feared for her own safety, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never was mean or trying to do something bad to another person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her husband was probably drinking when he wrote those texts to Copeland and was just venting his frustration over the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never was going to do it,” Yuliia Rogers said. “It was maybe like little boys like, ‘I will,’ ‘I can do this,’ or ‘we can do this.’ But it was just like playing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLrxYCP1Fa/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rogers had a big personality and a wide circle of clients and friends, Copeland was friendly but quiet, according to people who talked to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had more meaningful conversations with Ian than Jarrod,” said Jag Rattu, owner of Audio House, a Napa car audio and window tint business, who often saw the two weight-lifting at a nearby gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland, 38, started working as a mechanic at Rogers’ shop in 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like brothers. Like really close homies,” Rattu said. “They’d spot each other. I’m working [out] on a machine across from them, they’d be joking around, smiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattu said he noticed that after Trump was elected, Rogers, whom he’s known since 2007, became more politically vocal on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people got way to the left and some people got way to the right,” Rattu said. “I started seeing hatred come through in his Facebook posts. He hated Gavin Newsom for some reason. I heard something about him wanting to beat up Newsom. But I thought it was all jokes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattu said that he was most surprised by the Nazi memorabilia and “white privilege card” investigators found in Rogers’ safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Indian,” Rattu said. “I get mistaken for Muslim. I’ve gotten racist attacks against me. After 9/11, I almost got jumped by these guys. I tell you, Ian never, never — and Jarrod, too — never brought up stuff like this. They treated me like any old guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'My communication consists of fists and bullets'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years after meeting Rogers, Copeland enlisted in the U.S. Army. But his military career was cut short when he was arrested for desertion in May of 2014, not long after the start of basic training. In 2016, he was arrested for desertion a second time. He received an “other than honorable” discharge in lieu of court-martial the following month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">according to court records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that after Copeland was discharged from the Army, he joined an affiliate of the Three Percenter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, Copeland told Rogers that he was offered an officer position in the group, in either communications or security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But my communication consists of fists and bullets sooooo,” Copeland messaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months after his discharge from the Army, Copeland became general manager of Pep Boys in Vallejo. Justin Laquindanum, who told KQED he worked there at the same time, said Copeland was into guns and wore a close-cropped, militaristic haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s more into the [right to bear] arms — one of the topics he says is a definition of being American. A lot of soldier talk,” Laquindanum said, adding that Copeland helped him through a difficult period in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics often came up in their conversations while working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would ask me, ‘Hey, what do you think about this Black Lives Matter shit?’” Laquindanum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Laquindanum felt Copeland was “testing” him, that his response would determine how much Copeland shared with him moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like he wanted to know, essentially, are you more Democratic or are you more Republican?” Laquindanum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland aspired to be a cop, and he seemed agitated about being rejected by numerous police departments throughout the Bay Area and the California Highway Patrol, according to Laquindanum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Laquindanum said, he helped Copeland move into his in-laws’ three-bedroom house in north Vallejo. A family member who spoke to KQED, but then later declined to be quoted for fear of retribution, said Copeland spent long hours alone on the computer, and often made emotionally charged comments about politics or quoted Bible verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the week after the storming of the Capitol, Rogers and Copeland agreed to wait until Inauguration Day before taking action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s see what happens after the 20th we go to war,” Rogers messaged on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Copy,” Copeland replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088205226/evan-neumann-jan-6-insurrection-suspect-refugee-belarus-asylum,Bay Area Capitol Insurrection Suspect Wanted by the FBI Granted Refugee Status in Belarus\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Neumann-1020x560.jpg\"]The day after Rogers’ business and home were searched, a friend sent Copeland a link to a news article about his friend’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you think they look at our texts?” Copeland asked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">according to court records\u003c/a>. “Because we talk about some shit bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland immediately contacted one of the leaders of a militia he belonged to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crap,” the man replied, urging Copeland to delete the evidence from his phone and switch to a new communications platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delete all. Jarrod this sucks, but we will get through it,” the man said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Copeland’s house was searched on Jan. 17, 2021, two days after Rogers’ arrest, the communication with Rogers was missing from his phone. Six months later, the FBI arrested Copeland in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014788-motion-to-unseal-copeland-arrest-info-public\">according to court documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland’s cousin, Novice Doublin, speaking to KQED by phone from Mayfield, Kentucky, said the allegations didn’t sound like Copeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, he wasn’t the one who was out hunting and fishing and trying to figure out how to take 30 firecrackers to a pop bottle and make it blow up, you know? That was the rest of us,” Doublin said. “As far as I can remember, he’s never even had a speeding ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You meet different people at different points in your life,” Doublin continued. “Some good, some not so good. A lot of people talk shit. And, most people don’t pay it no attention. I don’t think Jarrod realized the severity behind the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made a mistake,” Copeland’s brother, Wesley Copeland, told a reporter via Facebook message. “He would never hurt anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Harris, who told KQED he also worked with Copeland at Pep Boys, said that while he and Copeland talked about their shared conservative political views, Copeland never displayed an openness to extremism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to believe that he went from that to just an extremist like over, what — since I met him, a couple months?” Harris said. “It’s a good possibility he was suckered into doing something like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, nothing in the text exchanges included in court records indicates Rogers pressured or manipulated Copeland into agreeing to an act of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2020, Copeland’s wife declined to be his court-appointed custodian at an initial bail hearing. Sheila Copeland later reconsidered, court records show, but after a judge reviewed transcripts of recorded phone calls between the two, he opted to keep Copeland behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D10100850113931966%26set%3Da.660083400716%26type%3D3&show_text=false&width=500\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"498\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court has reviewed the transcripts of the Defendant's calls to his wife from the jail after the first bail hearing and is disturbed by the anger and volatility apparent in them,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21492306-copeland-order-detaining-the-defendant#document/p4/a2097114\">wrote in his order\u003c/a>. “It is clear to the Court from the Defendant’s statements made in the phone calls that he would present a danger to the community, and that no custodian or surety would have the moral suasion to ensure the necessary compliance with any conditions imposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple attempts to reach Copeland’s wife were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If their federal case goes to trial, prosecutors will be faced with proving the men broke the law in the process of planning an attack that didn’t happen. Doing so could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no specific federal crimes attached to domestic terrorism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors typically charge individuals planning to carry out homegrown, politically motivated violence with another crime they committed on their pathway toward launching an attack — like possession of illegal firearms or conspiracy — according to FBI Agent Blair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, after the Oklahoma City bombing, they were not charged with a federal domestic terrorism crime — because there isn't one,” Blair said. “They were charged with murder at the state level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent acquittal of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is one example of how prosecutors can fail to prove conspiracy. In that case, defense attorneys argued the FBI entrapped the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland remain in federal custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers’ shop closed last year, according to a May 12, 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/napa-county-judge-keeps-bail-at-1-5-million-in-bombs-illegal-firearms-case/article_cd74c5e5-91e6-5ba8-a3ee-b8238b5627a2.html\">report in the Napa Valley Register\u003c/a> citing testimony from Crisci. At a hearing to determine whether Rogers posed a flight risk if allowed to post bail, his former wife and business partner told the judge that Rogers owed nearly $300,000 and had only enough cash to support his family for a few more months. Crisci did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people to say they did this because the president told them to do it or they were following orders — that has nothing to do with Mr. Rogers and who he is,” said Colin Cooper, Rogers’ attorney. “He’s accused of having essentially weapons that are deemed illegal, and he will pay a very serious penalty for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambrosio said his client accepts responsibility, but distanced Copeland from those who participated in the 2021 insurrection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the Jan. 6 stuff that also happened, those people actually hopped on a bus or a plane or train and went to the Capitol. They actually trespassed onto federal property and took active steps to either protest or riot,” Ambrosio said. “But he’s a human being. I’ve known him for a number of years. I think he’s a good person. Now do we sit down and talk about politics? No, we don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A look inside how two Bay Area men came to plot a mass casualty event.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652825588,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":134,"wordCount":5158},"headData":{"title":"Plot to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters Exposed California Extremists Hiding in Plain Sight | KQED","description":"A look inside how two Bay Area men came to plot a mass casualty event.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11913965 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11913965","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/16/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight/","disqusTitle":"Plot to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters Exposed California Extremists Hiding in Plain Sight","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/32d8be4d-8a6d-430f-a6b5-ae9700f71285/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ears before law enforcement seized the contents of Ian Rogers’ safe, he earned a reputation as a talented mechanic and successful Napa Valley business owner. Rogers catered to an elite clientele of Jaguar, Land Rover and Rolls-Royce owners inside a garage off Napa’s main drag, a street spotted with boutiques and high-end bed and breakfasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 47-year-old from Sonoma County, who appeared to have a passion for guns, according to Facebook posts where he dissed prominent Democrats, was also a loving husband and father who paid his bills on time, according to his family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall of 2020, in the weeks after Joe Biden was declared the next president of the United States, Rogers sent an ominous text to someone he trusted, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok bro we need to hit the enemy in the mouth,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">he messaged\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah so we punch Soros,” Rogers’ former employee and gym buddy, Jarrod Copeland, texted back, referring to billionaire investor George Soros.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland, a Kentucky native, had been a mechanic at Rogers’ shop nearly a decade earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think right now we attack democrats. They’re offices etc. Molotov cocktails and gasoline,” Rogers continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland replied, “We need more people bro. Gonna be hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after Thanksgiving, the chatter kindled a plan. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">Text messages contained in court records\u003c/a> show the two men agreed to burn down the headquarters of the California Democratic Party in Sacramento, a building diagonal to the California Highway Patrol office tasked with protecting state lawmakers and daily visitors to the Capitol. Also nearby: a youth center, a gym and a popular bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: sent link to the address of the California Democratic Party office…\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Right next to CHP\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: gotta be cautious\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Only takes 3 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Take a brick break a window pour gas in and light\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The two men texted that they hoped hitting that particular target would send a message and ignite a movement. They viewed themselves as action-film heroes, referencing “The Expendables,” a popular movie franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Scare the whole country\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Can you imagine cnn covering this haha !\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: I’ll leave a envelope with our demands and intentions\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Basically saying we declare war on the Democratic Party and all traitors to the republic.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: That’s some expendables stuff.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: We need to send a message\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: Yep I agree\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: Start a movement\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 8, 2021, the two acknowledged they might die carrying out their plan. Rogers asked Copeland if he was ready to leave his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rogers\u003c/strong>: What I’m talking about we probably will die unfortunately\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: She was crying yesterday and said to me “please don’t leave me I don’t know what to do without you” she was rubbing my back while I was watching...\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Copeland\u003c/strong>: She knows how i run and she knows I will put myself in harms way for what I believe in\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It never came to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland were arrested in January and July of 2021, respectively, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two are charged in federal court with conspiracy to destroy by fire or explosive a building used in interstate commerce, with Copeland facing an additional charge of destruction of records in official proceedings for allegedly destroying evidence of his communication with Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913972\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg\" alt=\"entrance of California Democratic Party headquarters\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/CADemHQ-1536x1008.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland planned to burn down the California Democratic Party headquarters building in Sacramento in text messages in November 2020. \u003ccite>(Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez/Google Maps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Napa County District Attorney’s Office also is prosecuting Rogers, for 28 felony counts over the numerous pipe bombs, and unregistered assault rifles authorities allegedly discovered inside his business, home and RV. He is also being charged with converting firearms into machine guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case goes to trial, Rogers faces a statutory maximum of 45 years in prison. Copeland faces a statutory maximum of 25 years, if convicted on all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys have been negotiating plea bargains over their alleged involvement for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland has entered a no-contest plea and is awaiting sentencing, his attorney, John Ambrosio, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s going to pay his debt and he’s taken responsibility,” Ambrosio added. “And we’re just waiting to see exactly what his punishment is going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part of a surge in domestic extremism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland’s case is part of a surge in violent extremist activity the FBI is investigating in Northern California and throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title18/html/USCODE-2009-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2331.htm\">defines domestic terrorism\u003c/a> as “acts dangerous to human life” that violate state or federal criminal law, and appear to be an attempt to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the spring of 2020, the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic extremists has more than doubled, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just over a year after hundreds of people stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of the presidential election, the DOJ announced it was creating a special unit to address “the threat posed by domestic extremism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department arrested and charged more than 725 people for their alleged involvement in the insurrection. KQED found that at least 40 were from California, including Evan Neumann, a Mill Valley resident charged with 14 counts, including assaulting Capitol police. Neumann fled to Europe, crossing through prewar Ukraine and successfully claiming asylum in Belarus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/evan-neumann-belarus-capitol-riot-asylum-ukraine/\">according to The Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11904864","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Carrillo-van-oakland-1020x631.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In February, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base allegedly aligned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/27/who-are-boogaloos-who-were-visible-capitol-and-later-rallies\">boogaloo\u003c/a> adherents in Turlock, part of a loose-knit anti-government group trying to ignite a civil war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904864/ex-air-force-sergeant-pleads-guilty-to-killing-federal-guard-in-oakland-during-george-floyd-protests\">entered a guilty plea\u003c/a> for gunning down a federal officer in Oakland during a 2020 protest over police violence. He's also accused of murdering a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just last month, an Orange County man was arrested for allegedly threatening to bomb the headquarters of Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publisher, because he was upset by the company’s definition of “female.” According to The Washington Post, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/25/merriam-webster-gender-death-threats/\">the man has allegedly been sending threatening messages since 2014\u003c/a>, and the FBI interviewed him in 2015 and in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid growing concerns of potential extremist violence, the FBI and local police \u003ca href=\"https://account.modbee.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=259694010&intcid=ab_archive\">recently held a town hall in Modesto\u003c/a>, urging residents to report possible domestic extremist threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>United by rage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand why two Bay Area men allegedly conspired to blow up a Sacramento building, KQED’s reporters visited the places where Rogers and Copeland worked, reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and public records and interviewed more than a dozen people, including family members. Copeland and Rogers' attorneys refused requests to interview their clients, pending a final decision in their case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What emerged is a portrait of friends united by rage who found community within an obscure anti-government militia. But one kept his affiliation quiet, while the other proudly displayed his allegiance with a bumper sticker on his truck. Together, they allegedly hatched a violent plan that they hoped would spark more violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Blair, the assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism at the FBI’s San Francisco field office, which investigated Rogers and Copeland, would not comment on the case, but said it’s not just the number of incidents that has gone up in California, but also the number of people involved and the severity of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are actors who are predisposed towards these acts of violence, who are violating federal law and who are adhering to ideology,” Blair said. “They didn’t just come into existence after 2020, right? I do think they were a little more emboldened now because the rhetoric has become so pervasive and so loud in our culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are getting more reports from individuals who happen to be near people who are spewing the ideology and taking steps towards ... violent acts, saying, 'No, not here, not on my turf, not around me.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jon Blair, FBI assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Southern Poverty Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map\">which tracks hate groups throughout the country\u003c/a>, has identified 45 currently active anti-government groups in California, including four militias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, chapters of other groups — including III% United Patriots, III% Defense Militia, California Three Percenters, the original Three Percenters, Oath Keepers and West Coast Patriots — all have been active in California, according to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland joined one of those, according to court records and screenshots obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21474115-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">Rogers told law enforcement\u003c/a> he was a member of a “prepper group” called 3UP, a California offshoot of the Three Percenters, court filings show. Detectives also found a bumper sticker on one of Rogers’ vehicles of the III% symbol: three lines encircled by 13 stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Three Percenters, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, represent a sub-ideology of the broader anti-government militia movement, and some California members were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/three-percenters-militia-members-charged-us-capitol-attack-2021-06-10/\">charged for participating in the January 6 insurrection\u003c/a>. Three Percenters believe the unproven assertion that just 3% of colonists defeated the English during the American Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3UP claimed to be a social club not affiliated with any militia, according to Facebook screenshots. When a reporter reached one member in Milpitas by phone, he said “no comment” and hung up the phone. Calls to a number of other members were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland also was a member of 3UP, according to prosecutors. Screenshots of a now-defunct private Facebook group for Bay Area members showed Copeland as a member. A photograph posted to the page on Aug. 9, 2020, showed Rogers and Copeland with their wives at a barbecue that other members of 3UP attended, according to a screenshot shared with a KQED reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s nothing illegal about socializing with members of a so-called “prepper group,” purchasing tactical equipment and believing the government should be overthrown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FBI’s strategy for combatting terrorism focuses on thwarting attacks before they happen — a concept the agency refers to as “left of boom” — the agency cannot interfere with people exercising their constitutional rights to voice their anger at elected officials and political parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Blair said, the agency does not investigate groups — only individuals who break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t care what you believe, because we’re not allowed to care what you believe, no matter how reprehensible those beliefs may be,” said Blair. “It’s only if your beliefs or your ideology are motivating you to commit an act of violence — that’s when you would suddenly become of concern to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blair said the FBI relies on tips to identify potential threats. He thinks more people are reporting extreme rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are looking left and right and realizing that this is not necessarily the world we want to live in,” Blair surmised. “I think we are getting more reports from individuals who happen to be near people who are spewing the ideology and taking steps towards those violent acts, saying, ‘No, not here, not on my turf, not around me.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A 'one-man militia'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>An anonymous tipster urged the FBI to look into Rogers’ behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED reporter was able to contact the individual who reported Rogers and confirm that the two had once been friends. According to the tipster, they shared a love for exotic cars and guns and had both voted for Donald Trump in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in 2019, Rogers began to threaten violence, often seething with rage and lashing out at people around him, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle.jpg\" alt=\"man wearing military fatigues and sunglasses outdoors smiles as he holds what appears to be an assault rifle\" width=\"1125\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle.jpg 1125w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-800x669.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-1020x853.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IanRogers-with-rifle-160x134.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This screenshot from Facebook of Ian Rogers holding a rifle was included on an SD card an informer provided to the FBI in September 2020. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The informer began documenting Rogers’ behavior. In September of 2020, he mailed an envelope to the San Francisco field office of the FBI. Inside was an SD card with screenshots of Rogers’ social media posts and a video of Rogers firing an AK-47 at a shooting range previously owned by Craig Bock, a prominent member of the Three Percenter movement, according to a lawsuit filed by Bock’s family after county officials revoked their lease for the shooting range, and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/solano-county-gun-club-twin-sisters-three-percenters/\">reporting by The Vallejo Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tipster also emailed the Napa County Sheriff’s Office, warning that Rogers was “deranged” and “a one-man militia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following excerpt from the tipster’s email \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21474115-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">was contained in a Napa County Superior Court filing\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014620-rogers-motion-to-increase-bail-declaration\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11914074\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1638\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM.png 1638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-800x475.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-1020x605.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-12.18.54-PM-1536x911.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1638px) 100vw, 1638px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI jointly investigated Rogers, according to a declaration by a county detective filed as part of a motion opposing Rogers’ bail. In November of 2020, authorities learned that Rogers had sold his home in American Canyon, a city about 10 miles south of Napa, and was flush with cash, according to the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 15, just nine days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sheriff’s deputies detained Rogers at a traffic stop in downtown Napa and served him with search warrants for his home and auto-repair shop, according to court papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a safe in Rogers’ office, law enforcement discovered five brick-sized pipe bombs, along with raw materials “that could be used to manufacture destructive devices, including black powder, pipes, endcaps,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22012703-210126-usa-v-rogers-complaint\">according to a federal criminal complaint\u003c/a>. There was “a Nazi flag and a Nazi dagger with markings from the Elite SS in Hitler’s army,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22011350-210510-rogers-napa-da-motion-to-deny-bail\">according to a separate court filing\u003c/a>. The safe also contained a “White Privilege Card,” according to an FBI affidavit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22012703-210126-usa-v-rogers-complaint\">federal complaint\u003c/a> against Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/WhitePrivelegeCard-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the 'White Privilege Card' found in Ian Rogers' safe, included in the federal complaint against him. \u003ccite>(U.S. District Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a storage closet, deputies found, according to records, “numerous rifles, including some that were fully automatic and some that had been modified to operate as machine guns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also found seven manuals on bomb making and survival tactics, including one called “The Anarchist Cookbook” and another titled “Homemade C-4,” an explosive material; approximately 15,000 rounds of ammunition; a homemade silencer; and “go bags” with body armor and bulletproof face shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens more guns were found, unsecured, inside his home and RV. All told, officers collected 54 guns — including eight assault weapons considered illegal in California, according to the Napa County District Attorney. Rogers was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers’ friends and family said he liked to pump iron, shoot semi-automatic rifles and drive fast cars. They also commented that he had used steroids to bulk up his 5’11” frame to 200 pounds in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2021/07/16/napa-man-with-white-privilege-card-and-accomplice/\">Facebook photo that went viral after his arrest\u003c/a>, Rogers sits at the wheel of his DeLorean, the gull-wing door raised, his muscular arms bulging under a cutoff T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean.jpg\" alt=\"man wearing camo shirt with bare arms and visible Nazi-esque eagle tattoo sits at wheel of Delorean car with door open\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1289\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersDelorean-1536x1031.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Rogers sits at the wheel of his DeLorean in a Facebook photo that went viral after his arrest in 2021. The photo shows his tattoo resembling a Nazi eagle. \u003ccite>(Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers has a tattoo on his upper left arm of an eagle that resembles the Nazi eagle, which he made no effort to hide. He is wearing camouflage fatigues and his hair is cropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers learned how to fix cars in his father’s repair shop in Sonoma County when he was young. In 2005, he and his first wife, Julie Crisci, opened British Auto Repair in Napa. Rogers catered to wine country residents of diverse ethnic backgrounds who praised his mechanical skills and professionalism in dozens of online reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two witnesses told KQED they heard Rogers use racist slurs to refer to clients. Those individuals said he expressed rage toward people of other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A longtime Napa resident, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, described one of Rogers’ tirades: “He was just stomping around, you know, ‘these mother****ing’ — you know, dropping N-bombs — ‘with their stupid’ — just like, like flexing, just flipping out. Other times you just hear him screaming about whatever — the Jews or, you know, Nancy Pelosi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said Rogers told people he named his German shepherd “Fritz” after Hitler’s personal dog handler, Fritz Tornow. Rogers also built a working MG 42, a machine gun that Allied troops nicknamed “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” because of the noise it made spewing 1,200-1,500 rounds of ammunition per minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a bad dude,” the Napa resident said. “He’s going to get what he deserves, hopefully. But, he’ll also be some sort of martyr for extremists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11914113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RogersPipeBombs-160x101.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The five pipe bombs seized at Rogers' auto repair shop 'were fully operational and could cause great bodily harm or injury,' according to a Napa County Sheriff's Office bomb technician in the federal complaint against Rogers. \u003ccite>(US District Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rogers also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22011730-210120-rogers-crisci-texts-exhibit2\">used racist slurs to describe his former Asian American neighbors in text messages to Crisci\u003c/a> that were included in court filings. On Sept. 16, 2019, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate this town I’ll be happier away from the [N-word]. I’m sick of my stupid [racist slur for people of Korean descent] neighbors. I can’t forgive them for calling the cops on my numerous times over bullshit. Neighbors should have your back and they are backstabbers. Typical Asian assholes, they only care about themselvs and they’re families. I hate Asians they are rude and dishonest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A business acquaintance of Rogers said he never heard him use racist language. Cliff Marden, who sold auto-repair tools to Rogers for over a decade, described his client as opinionated, but not violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ian is not a terrorist by any means. He’s not a threat to the public,” Marden said when reached by phone. “He was a businessman and he was an outstanding person and individual of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marden said Rogers got in trouble because he said the wrong things at the wrong time, but never would have acted on those threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had too much to lose to do something like that,” Marden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers has a young son from his first marriage, and had recently remarried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who answered the door at Rogers’ last known address confirmed she had married him a year and a half earlier. Yuliia Rogers said she met her husband online and that he came to see her in her native Ukraine three times before they married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very wonderful,” she said, smiling as she reminisced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuliia Rogers said she now reminds her husband of that time with a photograph “to keep him positive” while he’s incarcerated. She said her husband had been collecting guns for 20 years and that it was his “passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did not believe he was capable of violence and never feared for her own safety, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never was mean or trying to do something bad to another person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her husband was probably drinking when he wrote those texts to Copeland and was just venting his frustration over the presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never was going to do it,” Yuliia Rogers said. “It was maybe like little boys like, ‘I will,’ ‘I can do this,’ or ‘we can do this.’ But it was just like playing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CbLrxYCP1Fa"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While Rogers had a big personality and a wide circle of clients and friends, Copeland was friendly but quiet, according to people who talked to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had more meaningful conversations with Ian than Jarrod,” said Jag Rattu, owner of Audio House, a Napa car audio and window tint business, who often saw the two weight-lifting at a nearby gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland, 38, started working as a mechanic at Rogers’ shop in 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like brothers. Like really close homies,” Rattu said. “They’d spot each other. I’m working [out] on a machine across from them, they’d be joking around, smiling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattu said he noticed that after Trump was elected, Rogers, whom he’s known since 2007, became more politically vocal on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people got way to the left and some people got way to the right,” Rattu said. “I started seeing hatred come through in his Facebook posts. He hated Gavin Newsom for some reason. I heard something about him wanting to beat up Newsom. But I thought it was all jokes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rattu said that he was most surprised by the Nazi memorabilia and “white privilege card” investigators found in Rogers’ safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Indian,” Rattu said. “I get mistaken for Muslim. I’ve gotten racist attacks against me. After 9/11, I almost got jumped by these guys. I tell you, Ian never, never — and Jarrod, too — never brought up stuff like this. They treated me like any old guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'My communication consists of fists and bullets'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A few years after meeting Rogers, Copeland enlisted in the U.S. Army. But his military career was cut short when he was arrested for desertion in May of 2014, not long after the start of basic training. In 2016, he was arrested for desertion a second time. He received an “other than honorable” discharge in lieu of court-martial the following month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">according to court records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that after Copeland was discharged from the Army, he joined an affiliate of the Three Percenter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, Copeland told Rogers that he was offered an officer position in the group, in either communications or security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But my communication consists of fists and bullets sooooo,” Copeland messaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months after his discharge from the Army, Copeland became general manager of Pep Boys in Vallejo. Justin Laquindanum, who told KQED he worked there at the same time, said Copeland was into guns and wore a close-cropped, militaristic haircut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s more into the [right to bear] arms — one of the topics he says is a definition of being American. A lot of soldier talk,” Laquindanum said, adding that Copeland helped him through a difficult period in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politics often came up in their conversations while working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would ask me, ‘Hey, what do you think about this Black Lives Matter shit?’” Laquindanum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Laquindanum felt Copeland was “testing” him, that his response would determine how much Copeland shared with him moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like he wanted to know, essentially, are you more Democratic or are you more Republican?” Laquindanum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland aspired to be a cop, and he seemed agitated about being rejected by numerous police departments throughout the Bay Area and the California Highway Patrol, according to Laquindanum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Laquindanum said, he helped Copeland move into his in-laws’ three-bedroom house in north Vallejo. A family member who spoke to KQED, but then later declined to be quoted for fear of retribution, said Copeland spent long hours alone on the computer, and often made emotionally charged comments about politics or quoted Bible verses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the week after the storming of the Capitol, Rogers and Copeland agreed to wait until Inauguration Day before taking action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s see what happens after the 20th we go to war,” Rogers messaged on Jan. 11, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Copy,” Copeland replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"link1":"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088205226/evan-neumann-jan-6-insurrection-suspect-refugee-belarus-asylum,Bay Area Capitol Insurrection Suspect Wanted by the FBI Granted Refugee Status in Belarus","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Neumann-1020x560.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The day after Rogers’ business and home were searched, a friend sent Copeland a link to a news article about his friend’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you think they look at our texts?” Copeland asked, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">according to court records\u003c/a>. “Because we talk about some shit bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland immediately contacted one of the leaders of a militia he belonged to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crap,” the man replied, urging Copeland to delete the evidence from his phone and switch to a new communications platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delete all. Jarrod this sucks, but we will get through it,” the man said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Copeland’s house was searched on Jan. 17, 2021, two days after Rogers’ arrest, the communication with Rogers was missing from his phone. Six months later, the FBI arrested Copeland in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014788-motion-to-unseal-copeland-arrest-info-public\">according to court documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland’s cousin, Novice Doublin, speaking to KQED by phone from Mayfield, Kentucky, said the allegations didn’t sound like Copeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, he wasn’t the one who was out hunting and fishing and trying to figure out how to take 30 firecrackers to a pop bottle and make it blow up, you know? That was the rest of us,” Doublin said. “As far as I can remember, he’s never even had a speeding ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You meet different people at different points in your life,” Doublin continued. “Some good, some not so good. A lot of people talk shit. And, most people don’t pay it no attention. I don’t think Jarrod realized the severity behind the conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made a mistake,” Copeland’s brother, Wesley Copeland, told a reporter via Facebook message. “He would never hurt anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Harris, who told KQED he also worked with Copeland at Pep Boys, said that while he and Copeland talked about their shared conservative political views, Copeland never displayed an openness to extremism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just hard to believe that he went from that to just an extremist like over, what — since I met him, a couple months?” Harris said. “It’s a good possibility he was suckered into doing something like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, nothing in the text exchanges included in court records indicates Rogers pressured or manipulated Copeland into agreeing to an act of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2020, Copeland’s wife declined to be his court-appointed custodian at an initial bail hearing. Sheila Copeland later reconsidered, court records show, but after a judge reviewed transcripts of recorded phone calls between the two, he opted to keep Copeland behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D10100850113931966%26set%3Da.660083400716%26type%3D3&show_text=false&width=500\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"498\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Court has reviewed the transcripts of the Defendant's calls to his wife from the jail after the first bail hearing and is disturbed by the anger and volatility apparent in them,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21492306-copeland-order-detaining-the-defendant#document/p4/a2097114\">wrote in his order\u003c/a>. “It is clear to the Court from the Defendant’s statements made in the phone calls that he would present a danger to the community, and that no custodian or surety would have the moral suasion to ensure the necessary compliance with any conditions imposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple attempts to reach Copeland’s wife were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If their federal case goes to trial, prosecutors will be faced with proving the men broke the law in the process of planning an attack that didn’t happen. Doing so could be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no specific federal crimes attached to domestic terrorism in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors typically charge individuals planning to carry out homegrown, politically motivated violence with another crime they committed on their pathway toward launching an attack — like possession of illegal firearms or conspiracy — according to FBI Agent Blair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, after the Oklahoma City bombing, they were not charged with a federal domestic terrorism crime — because there isn't one,” Blair said. “They were charged with murder at the state level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent acquittal of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is one example of how prosecutors can fail to prove conspiracy. In that case, defense attorneys argued the FBI entrapped the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers and Copeland remain in federal custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers’ shop closed last year, according to a May 12, 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/napa-county-judge-keeps-bail-at-1-5-million-in-bombs-illegal-firearms-case/article_cd74c5e5-91e6-5ba8-a3ee-b8238b5627a2.html\">report in the Napa Valley Register\u003c/a> citing testimony from Crisci. At a hearing to determine whether Rogers posed a flight risk if allowed to post bail, his former wife and business partner told the judge that Rogers owed nearly $300,000 and had only enough cash to support his family for a few more months. Crisci did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people to say they did this because the president told them to do it or they were following orders — that has nothing to do with Mr. Rogers and who he is,” said Colin Cooper, Rogers’ attorney. “He’s accused of having essentially weapons that are deemed illegal, and he will pay a very serious penalty for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambrosio said his client accepts responsibility, but distanced Copeland from those who participated in the 2021 insurrection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all the Jan. 6 stuff that also happened, those people actually hopped on a bus or a plane or train and went to the Capitol. They actually trespassed onto federal property and took active steps to either protest or riot,” Ambrosio said. “But he’s a human being. I’ve known him for a number of years. I think he’s a good person. Now do we sit down and talk about politics? No, we don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight","authors":["11490","6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_20156","news_29027","news_29026","news_30202","news_425","news_27626","news_31104","news_2520","news_6565","news_17968","news_19216"],"featImg":"news_11914097","label":"news_72"},"news_11888796":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11888796","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11888796","score":null,"sort":[1631815811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"we-just-dont-understand-family-and-friends-of-man-killed-by-fbi-inside-oakland-store-hold-vigil","title":"'We Just Don't Understand': Family and Friends of Man Killed by FBI Inside Oakland Store Hold Vigil","publishDate":1631815811,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Friends and family of a man shot and killed by an FBI agent this week gathered in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood on Wednesday night to honor his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balloons blew in the wind as around 50 people gathered around candles in front of a garage door on Blossom Street adorned with photos of Michael Jonathan Cortez and lined with flowers. Cortez was 31 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said in a series of statements this week that the agent was working with the U.S. Marshals to serve an arrest warrant Monday afternoon when the shooting occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI hasn’t said whether the person killed was the subject of the warrant and hasn’t identified the agent who fired. The bureau hasn’t released any details of what led to the shooting, apart from saying that the person who was killed was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez's cousin Alexis Castillo said his family is now connected to the experience he’s seen other people go through who have family members killed by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call themselves the law, but act like a gang gunning down my little cousin in broad daylight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Nguyen was also among a group gathered at the vigil. She said Cortez was her boyfriend, and they met in San Francisco when she was 15 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wants to know why Cortez was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don't understand why it was handled the way it was, regardless of the criminal background or history of whatever happened. This is their job to protect us and do things the right way. And they did not do it the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed Aldahmi watched the vigil crowd from outside the Upstairs Underground Smoke Shop at the corner of Fruitvale Avenue and Blossom Street, where the shooting took place. Aldahmi was working inside during the shooting. He said Cortez was buying a drink and some snacks at the store when an officer wearing a bulletproof vest came into the store with his gun drawn, yelling, “Get down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said he and his 21-year-old cousin Issa, who was visiting him in the shop, ran into a storage area at the back of the store and laid on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just ran to the back to save my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was lying on the floor, Aldahmi said, he heard a gunshot. Some time after that he heard police knocking on the door between the cashiers area and the rest of the store telling him to come out. Police took him and his cousin out of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021.jpg\" alt=\"Two people kneel next to a group of lit candles, and one of the people lights a candle.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Cortez (center), sister of Michael Jonathan Cortez, lights a candle during a vigil for her brother in Oakland on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said what happened at his shop is upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m against any shooting or pointing a gun,” he said. “Even if they have a warrant, that's not right at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also worries about what will happen to his family’s shop and whether customers will stop coming to their store after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are affected by what the police have done inside our shop, and we didn’t do anything,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI and Oakland police are investigating the shooting. Oakland officers took Upstairs Underground’s video surveillance system after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, the Anti Police-Terror Project \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/1437636818078343172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanded\u003c/a> answers about the shooting and the scope of the FBI’s presence in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was just one of seven that occurred Monday in the Fruitvale neighborhood, according to the Oakland Police Department. On Tuesday, there was another fatal shooting. OPD reports that 94 people have been killed since the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Cortez leaves behind three children, four siblings and his mother and father, according to his family.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Loved ones are seeking details of what led to the deadly shooting of 31-year-old Michael Jonathan Cortez by an FBI agent in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1642810413,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":664},"headData":{"title":"'We Just Don't Understand': Family and Friends of Man Killed by FBI Inside Oakland Store Hold Vigil | KQED","description":"Loved ones are seeking details of what led to the deadly shooting of 31-year-old Michael Jonathan Cortez by an FBI agent in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11888796 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11888796","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/16/we-just-dont-understand-family-and-friends-of-man-killed-by-fbi-inside-oakland-store-hold-vigil/","disqusTitle":"'We Just Don't Understand': Family and Friends of Man Killed by FBI Inside Oakland Store Hold Vigil","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2022/01/FinneyFruitvaleShooting20210915.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11888796/we-just-dont-understand-family-and-friends-of-man-killed-by-fbi-inside-oakland-store-hold-vigil","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Friends and family of a man shot and killed by an FBI agent this week gathered in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood on Wednesday night to honor his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balloons blew in the wind as around 50 people gathered around candles in front of a garage door on Blossom Street adorned with photos of Michael Jonathan Cortez and lined with flowers. Cortez was 31 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said in a series of statements this week that the agent was working with the U.S. Marshals to serve an arrest warrant Monday afternoon when the shooting occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI hasn’t said whether the person killed was the subject of the warrant and hasn’t identified the agent who fired. The bureau hasn’t released any details of what led to the shooting, apart from saying that the person who was killed was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez's cousin Alexis Castillo said his family is now connected to the experience he’s seen other people go through who have family members killed by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call themselves the law, but act like a gang gunning down my little cousin in broad daylight,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Nguyen was also among a group gathered at the vigil. She said Cortez was her boyfriend, and they met in San Francisco when she was 15 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she wants to know why Cortez was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just don't understand why it was handled the way it was, regardless of the criminal background or history of whatever happened. This is their job to protect us and do things the right way. And they did not do it the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed Aldahmi watched the vigil crowd from outside the Upstairs Underground Smoke Shop at the corner of Fruitvale Avenue and Blossom Street, where the shooting took place. Aldahmi was working inside during the shooting. He said Cortez was buying a drink and some snacks at the store when an officer wearing a bulletproof vest came into the store with his gun drawn, yelling, “Get down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said he and his 21-year-old cousin Issa, who was visiting him in the shop, ran into a storage area at the back of the store and laid on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just ran to the back to save my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was lying on the floor, Aldahmi said, he heard a gunshot. Some time after that he heard police knocking on the door between the cashiers area and the rest of the store telling him to come out. Police took him and his cousin out of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888815\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11888815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021.jpg\" alt=\"Two people kneel next to a group of lit candles, and one of the people lights a candle.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/016_Fruitvale_MichaelCortezVigil_09152021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Cortez (center), sister of Michael Jonathan Cortez, lights a candle during a vigil for her brother in Oakland on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said what happened at his shop is upsetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m against any shooting or pointing a gun,” he said. “Even if they have a warrant, that's not right at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also worries about what will happen to his family’s shop and whether customers will stop coming to their store after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are affected by what the police have done inside our shop, and we didn’t do anything,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI and Oakland police are investigating the shooting. Oakland officers took Upstairs Underground’s video surveillance system after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Twitter, the Anti Police-Terror Project \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/APTPaction/status/1437636818078343172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanded\u003c/a> answers about the shooting and the scope of the FBI’s presence in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was just one of seven that occurred Monday in the Fruitvale neighborhood, according to the Oakland Police Department. On Tuesday, there was another fatal shooting. OPD reports that 94 people have been killed since the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Cortez leaves behind three children, four siblings and his mother and father, according to his family.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11888796/we-just-dont-understand-family-and-friends-of-man-killed-by-fbi-inside-oakland-store-hold-vigil","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_425","news_18246","news_18","news_4379"],"featImg":"news_11888798","label":"news"},"news_11884665":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11884665","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11884665","score":null,"sort":[1628726903000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fbi-faa-investigating-dixie-fire-drone-incident","title":"FBI, FAA Investigating Dixie Fire Drone Incident","publishDate":1628726903,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it's working closely with the FBI to investigate a drone flight that interfered with Cal Fire aircraft during the first hours of the agency's fight to control the Dixie Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA's announcement came in a one-sentence emailed statement. An agency spokesperson referred questions to the FBI's Sacramento field office, which didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the scope of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who is leading a probe into the fire, said his office reached out to the FBI soon after the July 13 incident. He said investigators have been taking advantage of FBI technology — what he called \"trick resources\" — to try to identify the drone and its operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11884337,news_11881837]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal law\u003c/a> provides for a civil penalty of as much as $20,000 for any drone operator who \"knowingly or recklessly interferes with a wildfire suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response effort.\" \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=402.&nodeTreePath=4.9&lawCode=PEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California law\u003c/a> makes it a misdemeanor for a drone operator to interfere with emergency responders, including firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 13, a Cal Fire pilot observed a drone over the fire, just hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881837/why-it-took-pge-9-5-hours-to-get-to-the-scene-where-dixie-fire-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it started\u003c/a> in the Feather River Canyon northeast of Oroville. The drone appeared as the agency's air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter worked to extinguish the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey, who's leading a local law enforcement investigation of the incident, has said interference from the drone may have prevented the fire from being contained when it was still a minor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze escaped control and over the past four weeks has burned through more than a half-million acres of northern Sierra forest and destroyed the Plumas County town of Greenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire units conducted a brief, unsuccessful search for the drone operator after the remotely operated aircraft was seen near the fire. The fire agency also alerted the sheriffs' offices in Butte and Plumas counties and the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED reported earlier this week, Ramsey's office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884337/investigators-probing-pges-possible-link-to-fateful-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is investigating\u003c/a> whether the drone was operated by PG&E or one of its contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has ordered the company to say what it knows about drone flights in the area of the fire. Alsup is overseeing PG&E's criminal probation for violating federal pipeline safety laws and obstructing a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the company's deadly 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says no drones authorized to do work for the company were operating in Butte and Plumas counties at the time of the incursion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the district attorneys' offices in Butte and Plumas counties are investigating what started the Dixie Fire. PG&E has acknowledged in filings with the California Public Utilities Commission and Judge Alsup's court that the blaze started at a site where a 70-foot Douglas-fir had fallen across its power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal agencies have joined an effort to identify who operated a drone that interfered with firefighting aircraft in the first hours of the Dixie Fire.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1628815705,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":514},"headData":{"title":"FBI, FAA Investigating Dixie Fire Drone Incident | KQED","description":"Federal agencies have joined an effort to identify who operated a drone that interfered with firefighting aircraft in the first hours of the Dixie Fire.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11884665 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11884665","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/11/fbi-faa-investigating-dixie-fire-drone-incident/","disqusTitle":"FBI, FAA Investigating Dixie Fire Drone Incident","path":"/news/11884665/fbi-faa-investigating-dixie-fire-drone-incident","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it's working closely with the FBI to investigate a drone flight that interfered with Cal Fire aircraft during the first hours of the agency's fight to control the Dixie Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA's announcement came in a one-sentence emailed statement. An agency spokesperson referred questions to the FBI's Sacramento field office, which didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the scope of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who is leading a probe into the fire, said his office reached out to the FBI soon after the July 13 incident. He said investigators have been taking advantage of FBI technology — what he called \"trick resources\" — to try to identify the drone and its operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11884337,news_11881837","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/46320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal law\u003c/a> provides for a civil penalty of as much as $20,000 for any drone operator who \"knowingly or recklessly interferes with a wildfire suppression, law enforcement, or emergency response effort.\" \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=402.&nodeTreePath=4.9&lawCode=PEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California law\u003c/a> makes it a misdemeanor for a drone operator to interfere with emergency responders, including firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 13, a Cal Fire pilot observed a drone over the fire, just hours after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881837/why-it-took-pge-9-5-hours-to-get-to-the-scene-where-dixie-fire-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it started\u003c/a> in the Feather River Canyon northeast of Oroville. The drone appeared as the agency's air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter worked to extinguish the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey, who's leading a local law enforcement investigation of the incident, has said interference from the drone may have prevented the fire from being contained when it was still a minor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze escaped control and over the past four weeks has burned through more than a half-million acres of northern Sierra forest and destroyed the Plumas County town of Greenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire units conducted a brief, unsuccessful search for the drone operator after the remotely operated aircraft was seen near the fire. The fire agency also alerted the sheriffs' offices in Butte and Plumas counties and the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED reported earlier this week, Ramsey's office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11884337/investigators-probing-pges-possible-link-to-fateful-dixie-fire-drone-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is investigating\u003c/a> whether the drone was operated by PG&E or one of its contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has ordered the company to say what it knows about drone flights in the area of the fire. Alsup is overseeing PG&E's criminal probation for violating federal pipeline safety laws and obstructing a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the company's deadly 2010 San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E says no drones authorized to do work for the company were operating in Butte and Plumas counties at the time of the incursion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the district attorneys' offices in Butte and Plumas counties are investigating what started the Dixie Fire. PG&E has acknowledged in filings with the California Public Utilities Commission and Judge Alsup's court that the blaze started at a site where a 70-foot Douglas-fir had fallen across its power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11884665/fbi-faa-investigating-dixie-fire-drone-incident","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_29668","news_29684","news_17959","news_5647","news_425","news_140","news_29686","news_4463"],"featImg":"news_11884699","label":"news"},"news_11855799":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11855799","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11855799","score":null,"sort":[1610996276000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mlk-fbi-humanizes-a-civil-rights-icons-legacy","title":"'MLK/FBI' Humanizes a Civil Rights Icon's Legacy","publishDate":1610996276,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A year ago, the official Twitter account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted, \"Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\" It was accompanied by a photo of the FBI Academy's reflecting pool, where a quote from King is etched in stone: \"The time is always right to do what is right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn't \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FBI/status/849321344592470018\">the first time\u003c/a> the FBI sent out a statement honoring the slain civil rights leader on the holiday that bears his name, and the responses to the ostensible hypocrisy of it all were no less colorful than they had been in previous years: expletive-filled kiss-offs, angry memes and links or screenshots from articles detailing the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html\">notoriously relentless surveillance of King\u003c/a> in the final years of his life. Few took the FBI's \"honor\" seriously, because why would they? In the 1960s, the organization, led by its director J. Edgar Hoover, made active attempts to dismantle King's work and influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is neither new nor little-known information, but that doesn't render Sam Pollard's documentary \"MLK/FBI,\" now streaming on demand, less essential. Working with recently declassified documents from the National Archives, which reveal a deeper sense as to the extent and insidiousness of the agency's surveillance, the film aims to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like Ava DuVernay's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/12/27/373465623/for-hollywood-selma-is-a-new-kind-of-civil-rights-story\">Selma\u003c/a>,\" a dramatization with similar aims, it succeeds: Pollard and his team – which includes writers Benjamin Hedin (also the producer) and Laura Tomaselli (also the editor), as well as archival producer Brian Becker – craft an immersive historical play-by-play of how and why King became a target for Hoover and his cohort, placing the activist firmly in context within the era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BFI/status/1348932738968035328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with various scholars, former FBI officials like James Comey, and King's close friends and confidants play out primarily in voice-over (we see no talking heads until the film's final minutes), which allows the filmmakers to be creative in their visual storytelling. In addition to Becker's uncovering of rare news clips and footage of King with his family, an effective narrative choice is in the frequent use of excerpts from movies like\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCkjDRhk1-E\"> \"I Was a Communist for the FBI\"\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMl1fmMkrp8\">\"The FBI Story\"\u003c/a>. Beverly Gage, author of \"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century,\" tracks the making of the myth of the FBI as a heroic, moral institution, one driven in large part by the plethora of pro-FBI content in media and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \"MLK/FBI\" explains, it's King's association with Stanley Levison, a progressive lawyer and businessman with Communist Party ties, that initially caught the attention of Hoover. But it was his growing impact on the international stage (the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1964; the \"I Have a Dream\" speech at the March on Washington in 1963), as well as the discovery of his extramarital affairs, which kicked the FBI's espionage of King into high gear, manifesting into a years-long obsession. The filmmakers don't shy away from the more unsavory details – including a potentially unreliable FBI document suggesting King was present during the sexual assault of a woman by another man – instead engaging with them head on, as interviewees make the strong case for viewing the investigation as one driven by the deeply ingrained perception of black men as inherent sexual deviants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recurring themes arise. On a federal judge's order, the surveillance tapes of King are sealed in the National Archives until at least 2027, and ethical questions are posed about whether dissecting these details are yet another invasion of King's privacy. There are cautions against taking the content of the documents at face value, because of the inherent racial biases and at-times dubious methods of their authors. And of course, there's the concern over King's legacy and how it might crack under revelations that seemingly contradict his near-deified memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are valid issues worth wrestling with. But Pollard and his collaborators seem to know and trust that there is more to be gained from this exercise than lost. And as Clarence Jones, a speechwriter for King, puts it, \"Does [the truth of his romantic dalliances] make him in my mind less of an historic civil rights leader? No, it does not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an engagement with one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century has been long overdue. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pence-twists-mlk-legacy-black-lives-matter-1021596/\">common schtick\u003c/a> among those decrying Black Lives Matter \"rioters\" is to compare the activists and their supporters unfavorably to King and the civil rights movement. The modern-day tactics for protest and activism – say, taking a knee or calling for the removal of Confederate monuments – are the \"wrong way\" and are only sowing further division, they suggest, while King knew how to demonstrate \"right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They willfully ignore the facts of the FBI's insidious infiltration of King's inner circle, and the marking of him at one point as \"the most dangerous Negro\" in the country by one of the agency's top officials. They evade the truth of his outspokenness against United States involvement in the Vietnam War at a time when it was politically dangerous to take such a position, leading even more people to turn against him toward the end. At one point in the documentary, Gage cites a public opinion poll taken after Hoover and King engaged in a public spat – 50% of respondents at the time sided with Hoover, and only 15-20% agreed with King. These reactions, and many more, all directed at the man (and movement) who advocated for many of the same things BLM is pushing for today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King's legacy is complicated, but certainly not undone, by \"MLK/FBI.\" That's a good thing; the more we see him as an extraordinary but flawed human being, the easier it is to envision a path forward.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New documentary 'MLK/FBI' explores declassified documents from the National Archives to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1611084084,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1030},"headData":{"title":"'MLK/FBI' Humanizes a Civil Rights Icon's Legacy | KQED","description":"New documentary 'MLK/FBI' explores declassified documents from the National Archives to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11855799 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11855799","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/01/18/mlk-fbi-humanizes-a-civil-rights-icons-legacy/","disqusTitle":"'MLK/FBI' Humanizes a Civil Rights Icon's Legacy","source":"NPR","nprByline":"Aisha Harris","path":"/news/11855799/mlk-fbi-humanizes-a-civil-rights-icons-legacy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A year ago, the official Twitter account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted, \"Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\" It was accompanied by a photo of the FBI Academy's reflecting pool, where a quote from King is etched in stone: \"The time is always right to do what is right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn't \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FBI/status/849321344592470018\">the first time\u003c/a> the FBI sent out a statement honoring the slain civil rights leader on the holiday that bears his name, and the responses to the ostensible hypocrisy of it all were no less colorful than they had been in previous years: expletive-filled kiss-offs, angry memes and links or screenshots from articles detailing the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html\">notoriously relentless surveillance of King\u003c/a> in the final years of his life. 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Working with recently declassified documents from the National Archives, which reveal a deeper sense as to the extent and insidiousness of the agency's surveillance, the film aims to restore dimensions to the now-flattened image of King, who today is often reduced to iconography and erroneously viewed by many as having been a noncontroversial figure during his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like Ava DuVernay's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/12/27/373465623/for-hollywood-selma-is-a-new-kind-of-civil-rights-story\">Selma\u003c/a>,\" a dramatization with similar aims, it succeeds: Pollard and his team – which includes writers Benjamin Hedin (also the producer) and Laura Tomaselli (also the editor), as well as archival producer Brian Becker – craft an immersive historical play-by-play of how and why King became a target for Hoover and his cohort, placing the activist firmly in context within the era.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1348932738968035328"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with various scholars, former FBI officials like James Comey, and King's close friends and confidants play out primarily in voice-over (we see no talking heads until the film's final minutes), which allows the filmmakers to be creative in their visual storytelling. In addition to Becker's uncovering of rare news clips and footage of King with his family, an effective narrative choice is in the frequent use of excerpts from movies like\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCkjDRhk1-E\"> \"I Was a Communist for the FBI\"\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMl1fmMkrp8\">\"The FBI Story\"\u003c/a>. Beverly Gage, author of \"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century,\" tracks the making of the myth of the FBI as a heroic, moral institution, one driven in large part by the plethora of pro-FBI content in media and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \"MLK/FBI\" explains, it's King's association with Stanley Levison, a progressive lawyer and businessman with Communist Party ties, that initially caught the attention of Hoover. But it was his growing impact on the international stage (the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1964; the \"I Have a Dream\" speech at the March on Washington in 1963), as well as the discovery of his extramarital affairs, which kicked the FBI's espionage of King into high gear, manifesting into a years-long obsession. The filmmakers don't shy away from the more unsavory details – including a potentially unreliable FBI document suggesting King was present during the sexual assault of a woman by another man – instead engaging with them head on, as interviewees make the strong case for viewing the investigation as one driven by the deeply ingrained perception of black men as inherent sexual deviants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recurring themes arise. On a federal judge's order, the surveillance tapes of King are sealed in the National Archives until at least 2027, and ethical questions are posed about whether dissecting these details are yet another invasion of King's privacy. There are cautions against taking the content of the documents at face value, because of the inherent racial biases and at-times dubious methods of their authors. And of course, there's the concern over King's legacy and how it might crack under revelations that seemingly contradict his near-deified memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are valid issues worth wrestling with. But Pollard and his collaborators seem to know and trust that there is more to be gained from this exercise than lost. And as Clarence Jones, a speechwriter for King, puts it, \"Does [the truth of his romantic dalliances] make him in my mind less of an historic civil rights leader? No, it does not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an engagement with one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century has been long overdue. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pence-twists-mlk-legacy-black-lives-matter-1021596/\">common schtick\u003c/a> among those decrying Black Lives Matter \"rioters\" is to compare the activists and their supporters unfavorably to King and the civil rights movement. The modern-day tactics for protest and activism – say, taking a knee or calling for the removal of Confederate monuments – are the \"wrong way\" and are only sowing further division, they suggest, while King knew how to demonstrate \"right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They willfully ignore the facts of the FBI's insidious infiltration of King's inner circle, and the marking of him at one point as \"the most dangerous Negro\" in the country by one of the agency's top officials. They evade the truth of his outspokenness against United States involvement in the Vietnam War at a time when it was politically dangerous to take such a position, leading even more people to turn against him toward the end. At one point in the documentary, Gage cites a public opinion poll taken after Hoover and King engaged in a public spat – 50% of respondents at the time sided with Hoover, and only 15-20% agreed with King. These reactions, and many more, all directed at the man (and movement) who advocated for many of the same things BLM is pushing for today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King's legacy is complicated, but certainly not undone, by \"MLK/FBI.\" That's a good thing; the more we see him as an extraordinary but flawed human being, the easier it is to envision a path forward.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11855799/mlk-fbi-humanizes-a-civil-rights-icons-legacy","authors":["byline_news_11855799"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_29046","news_425","news_20755","news_29045"],"featImg":"news_11855800","label":"source_news_11855799"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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