A 63 year-old man was arrested after planning to attack a school and Mosque which were part of a Muslim community in Delaware County. WENY reports the FBI has arrested and charged Robert Doggart of Signal Mountain, TN in connection with a plot to kill residents and destroy the school and mosque of the Muslim village of Islamberg in Hancock, NY.

Federal authorities had been investigating Doggart since February, after becoming aware of threats he had made against the community through social media. WENY says that Doggart allegedly planned to use rifles, explosives, machetes and snipers in his plot to destroy the people and the town. Doggart was arrested in April by federal marshals and was first charged with solicitation, intentionally defacing, damaging or destroying any religious real property, and transmitting communication containing a threat to injure the person of another.

Doggart took a plea agreement, admitting to the charge of communicating a threat to injure a person. The affidavit indicates Doggart travelled to both South Carolina and Texas to meet with members of private militia groups to carry-out the alleged plot.

 

 

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