“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Benjamin Rogers wrote in a messaging app.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, 46, of Napa, pleaded guilty to conspiring to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun under a plea agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated withThe pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges in July.
Their first planned target was the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento, prosecutors said.Law enforcement officers who searched Rogers’s home in January 2021 seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said. He was taken into custody then on state charges after the FBI said he sent text messages that agents perceived as threats against the unoccupied Governor’s Mansion and social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
Under a universal agreement, the federal sentence will be served concurrently with a 10- to 12-year state sentence on similar Napa County charges of possessing fully automatic weapons and explosive devices, said Rogers’ attorney, Colin Cooper.“He’s accepted responsibility and he is desirous of paying his debt to society and resuming a life of productivity, of being a good father and good husband and a good family man” with an 11-year-old son, Cooper said.
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