Florida Domestic Terrorist Attack Thwarted

by JASmius



Second look at distributing heavy artillery to local police departments?  Especially now that local police departments are much less heavily armed than the criminal element?:

Deputies from Marion County said they thwarted a plot to attack Eustis police, a church and a local Elks lodge as they raided a shed, where they found twenty-two firearms, several containers of black powder, bulletproof vests and drugs.

Two men were also found in the shed and arrested for planning the attack, which investigator said was was supposed to happen Monday with a rocket grenade launcher.

Deputies said the suspects, identified Monday as Christopher Conger, thirty-two, and Jeremy Robertson, twenty-nine, also had bulletproof vests and even a gilly suit to camouflage themselves if they were, indeed, were plotting the attack.

Eustis police Chief Fred Cobb first learned his department and officers could be in danger Friday afternoon after a Lake County inmate told deputies he knew some people planning an all-out attack on the police department Monday using high-powered weapons.…..

Investigators also found the safe the tipster said contained a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. But deputies said the safe was empty, and a third suspect known only as “Rhino” was nowhere to be found.

“The fact that rocket-propelled grenade launcher wasn't found doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We hope we can find it, if it’s out there,” said Major Terry Brevard, with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. “As to the sense of it being false bravado, who knows? We really don’t know.……

Despite the search for a third man — and a possibly missing rocket grenade launcher — deputies said they believe all the alleged targets are safe, including the Eustis Police Department, Saint Mary of the Lakes Catholic Church, and the Elks Lodge.

I think we can safely assume that the grenade launcher is with the dynamic duo's at-large accomplice.  Which means none of their targets are safe.

Since one of the perps is white, we can at least preliminarily rule out Black Klan involvement.  But the intended attack on a church as well as a police station begs the question of when they converted to Islam.  I'd wager it won't be too long before that other shoe drops.

But the local BPOE?  Beats me.  Maybe they were promised a skinny-dipping outing at the lodge and the latter didn't deliver, or something.