Vegas Man Was Arrested For Plotting White Supremacist Attack On An LGBTQ Bar And Synagogue

[left-of-center2012]

A Las Vegas man who once claimed he was protecting his neighborhood while patrolling on foot with an assault rifle has been arrested and charged with plotting to carry out an attack on a synagogue and LGBTQ bar in the city. Conor Climo, 23, allegedly sent encrypted messages to white supremacists this year discussing a possible attack using Molotov cocktails and other improvised explosives, federal officials said Friday.

Climo told the FBI he had also been looking at creating an eight-man "sniper platoon" to conduct a shooting attack against Jews, court documents said, a plan he said he had been considering for two years. The 23-year-old also claimed he was trying to recruit a homeless person to conduct surveillance on a possible target, according to the complaint.

Climo faces multiple federal charges including one count of possession of an unregistered firearm. If convicted, he faces a 10-year sentence in federal prison and $250,000 fine.

Climo had already caused concern among his neighbors in 2016 when, in a video posted to his now-deleted YouTube channel, he announced plans to patrol his Centennial Hills neighborhood with an AR-15-style rifle, four 30-round clips, and camouflaged packs. Climo scrapped his plans to patrol the neighborhood after it was reported by local media, and said that he planned to join a typical neighborhood watch group. The 23-year-old, who was employed as a security guard for Allied Universal, was suspended from his job Friday due to his arrest, a company spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. The company did not answer additional questions regarding Climo's employment.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/vegas-man-white-supremacist-attack-lgbtq

[zackymilly]

1. Those eyes....n/t

[left-of-center2012]

2. And someone hired him as a security guard?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. This POS has been walking that

neighborhood for three plus years. And Metro just ignored him.


There are more of these A--holes just down the road a bit. Saturday is their big day,pickup trucks flying their Confederate and Militia flags doing their Coal-roller thingee.

[Hortensis]

4. Glad people alarmed by him reported him. Don't know, but that

may have ultimately saved a lot of lives.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. I hope that he faces terrorist charges since he needs to be taken permanently off the streets...

he's going to be a danger to anyone, anywhere he's at.

Why is it these under 30 year old kids who think that they have a 'god' complex, and thus need to save the world?

They need to realize that the vast majority of the world doesn't need saving (we're doing fine by ourselves) and we don't need your guns or weapons either. Go away.