From a Division of Justice press launch dated October 24, however posted on Westlaw a couple of days in the past:
An Ohio man pleaded responsible yesterday to violating the Church Arson Prevention Act and to utilizing fireplace and explosives to commit a criminal offense, all in connection together with his try to burn down a church over the church’s assist of the LGBTQI+ group.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork, on March 25, Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, made Molotov cocktails and drove to the Group Church of Chesterland (CCC) in Chesterland, Ohio.
Angered by the church’s plan to host two drag occasions the next weekend, Penny threw two Molotov cocktails on the church, hoping to burn it to the bottom. Via Penny’s responsible plea, he admitted to utilizing violence by way of fireplace and explosives with the intent to intervene with CCC congregants’ enjoyment and expression of their non secular beliefs….
From the assertion of an FBI agent:
Primarily based on my training and expertise, White Lives Matter is a gaggle with racist, pro-Nazi, and homophobic views. At a drag queen occasion on March 11, 2023 in Wadsworth, Ohio, members of White Lives Matter “confirmed up on the occasion carrying swastika flags and shouting racist and homophobic slurs and ‘Heil Hitler’.”
Wadsworth Police recognized PENNY as a person who traveled to Wadsworth previous to the March 11, 2023, drag queen story hour to distribute propaganda flyers representing White Lives Matter, Ohio’s anti-drag queen views. PENNY subsequently attended the drag queen story hour occasion on March 11, 2023 and was recognized by Wadsworth Police as a White Lives Matter protester….
The search of PENNY’s residence revealed, amongst different issues, a handwritten manifesto containing ideological statements, a Nazi flag, Nazi memorabilia, a White Lives Matter of Ohio t-shirt, a gasoline masks, a number of rolls of blue painter’s tape and gasoline . cans.
