Police: Pa. suspect wanted guns to overthrow gov't

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Police: Pa. suspect wanted guns to overthrow gov't

By MARK SCOLFORO (AP) – 2 days ago

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A prison guard accused of shooting a lawyer to death at a gun range told police he found the man dead and stole his rifle so it could be used by an extremist group bent on overthrowing the U.S. government, court records show.

Camp Hill State Prison guard Raymond Franklin Peake III wouldn't name the group but said a fellow guard accused of helping him steal attorney Todd Getgen's AR-15 also was a member, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

"Peake told (investigators) that he would kill to defend his country and he was stealing weapons to defend his country," wrote North Middleton Township police Detective Timothy Lively.

Lively said Monday that Peake, in speaking with detectives, denied killing Getgen, who was 42. Lively said he didn't know the identity of the anti-government group involved but he believed the gun theft was the motive for the killing.

[ThomWV]

1. that's why we're allowed to have them - to overthrow the Government when necessary

That was the original idea. Of course it doesn't work all that well when the Government has atom bombs, a world-wide network of military/police, and the NSA.

[HopeHoops]

2. Early on, the police speculated that he fabricated the militia story.

Essentially, they suspect he came up with that to support his claim that he found the guy dead and simply stole his gun - a way to get out of the murder charge. Theft is obviously a far lesser crime.

I live near where this happened and get The Patriot-News daily.