Militia Leader Who Scouted BLM Site to Attack Has Been Arrested
Three months before he was fatally shot at a traffic stop during the occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge earlier this year, LaVoy Finicum scouted a Bureau of Land Management facility in Arizona with a militia leader from Utah now accused of attempting to blow up the site.
William Keebler, 57, of Stockton, Utah, was arrested by the FBI in Nephi, Utah, on Wednesday, a day after undercover agents watched as he pushed the detonator button on what was an inert bomb placed against a building at the BLM’s Mount Trumbull complex in Arizona.
Charging documents outlining the FBI sting operation say Keebler and Finicum “had conducted reconnaissance on the BLM facility in Arizona in October 2015,” accompanied by an undercover FBI agent who took photographs.
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