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One of Four Arrested in Feb. 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seattle, Washington<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cameron Shea, 25, a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Washington to three years in prison for threatening journalists, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is charged with federal conspiracy and hate crime charges for threatening journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cameron Shea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

 At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour said, \u201cThis conduct cannot be tolerated. This kind of conduct has consequences\u2026It is so serious that it requires a serious sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Justice Department will continue to aggressively prosecute threats motivated by religious intolerance, and to prosecute defendants like this one who threatened violence against individuals who work to end discrimination,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cThe Justice Department is committed to prosecuting to the full extent of the  law, violent neo-Nazis and other perpetrators of hate crimes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis hate-filled conduct strikes at the heart of our communities,\u201d said Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa Gorman for the Western District of Washington. \u201cThis defendant\u2019s goal was to make people fearful in their own homes, and he recruited and cheered on others who joined his sick scheme. This federal prison sentence underscores the human damage from his crimes.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shea pleaded guilty in April 2021, to one count of conspiring to commit three offenses against the United States: interference with federally-protected activities because of religion; mailing threatening communications; and cyberstalking. He also pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with a federally protected activity because of religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shea and three co-defendants were charged with conspiring via an encrypted online chat group to identify journalists and advocates they wanted to threaten in retaliation for the victims\u2019 work exposing anti-Semitism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The group focused primarily on those who are Jewish or journalists of color. The group created posters, which featured Nazi symbols, masked figures with guns and Molotov cocktails, and threatening messages, to deliver or mail to the journalists or advocates the group targeted, officials stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shea messaged the group that he wanted Atomwaffen members in different locations to place posters on their victims\u2019 homes on the same night to catch journalists off guard and accomplish a \u201cshow of force.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The posters were delivered to victims in Tampa, Seattle and Phoenix. Shea mailed posters to several victims, including a poster sent to an official at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that depicted a Grim Reaper-like figure wearing a skeleton mask holding a Molotov cocktail outside a residence, with the text \u201cOur Patience Has Its Limits . . . You have been visited by your local Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of Shea\u2019s co-defendants previously pled guilty to the conspiracy charge and were sentenced. A fourth defendant pled not guilty and is awaiting trial in Sept. 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is being investigated by the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Tampa, Seattle, Houston and Phoenix with assistance from the Seattle Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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