US Soldier Charged with Planning Deadly Ambush on His Army Unit, DOJ Says – By Matthew Cox (Military.com) / June 22 2020
The Department of Justice announced Monday that it has charged a U.S. soldier with planning a “murderous ambush” on his Army unit by sending sensitive details to a white-supremist group in Europe.
Officials announced the unsealing of the indictment, charging Pvt. Ethan Melzer, 22, with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. nationals; conspiring and attempting to murder military service members; providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists; and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country, according to a DOJ news release.
Melzer, originally of Louisville, Kentucky, allegedly sent information about his unit’s location, movements and security measures to members of the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), an occult-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist group, the release states.
“As the indictment lays out, Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly ambush on his fellow soldiers in the service of a diabolical cocktail of ideologies laced with hate and violence,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said in the release. “Our women and men in uniform risk their lives for our country, but they should never face such peril at the hands of one of their own.”
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