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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Rohrlich

Florida man discussed livestreaming neo-Nazi terror attack before being busted by the feds, authorities say

A Florida man is accused of making threats, including torturing children. If convicted, 20-year-old Lucas Alexander Temple (bottom left) is facing up to a decade behind bars. - (Department of Justice)

A 20-year-old Florida man using the online handle “Devilwaffen999” discussed the idea of torturing non-white children, sexually assaulting a man with an electrified baton, and provided bomb-making instructions to associates in a neo-Nazi group chat that the members didn’t realize was under surveillance by the feds, according to court filings reviewed by The Independent.

Grocery store worker Lucas Alexander Temple was arrested November 20 at his parents’ Sarasota home, where he lives, on one count of possession of an unregistered firearm after FBI agents found, among other things, an illegal sawed-off shotgun in his bedroom, a probable cause affidavit shows.

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