The FBI has discovered a cache of military weaponry and armor, including a machine gun and grenade launchers, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a home in Washington state.

Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.

Sanders’ statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.

  • Guidy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Lots of rural Washington is MAGA/Nazi territory. Especially Eastern Washington.

    And apparently the state has a history of problems with private militias, because the state constitution guarantees firearm ownership for self defense while at the same time forbidding belonging to a militia.

    So this story isn’t a surprise.