An armed man who stopped an Amtrak train in Nebraska is facing a terrorism charge, after the FBI discovered ties to "an 'alt-right' Neo-Nazi group," a cache of weapons, and allegations that the suspect, Taylor Wilson, had talked about a desire to kill black people.
Federal authorities have filed a terrorism charge against Wilson, 26, of St. Charles, Mo., who was arrested in October after Amtrak personnel said he entered a restricted area of their train and applied the emergency brake in Furnas County, Nebraska.
Wilson is accused of "Terrorism Attacks and Other Violence Against Railroad Carriers and Against Mass Transportation," according to court papers that were recently unsealed.
Investigators say Wilson had been traveling from California to his home in Missouri when he was found in a secure area of the train. After Amtrak staff found him "playing with the controls" in the engineer's seat, a struggled ensued, in which Wilson repeatedly tried to get loose and to reach at his waistband.
A local sheriff's deputy was called to the scene in rural Nebraska around 2 a.m. on Oct. 22. The deputy found Amtrak personnel holding him down on the ground. He was carrying a loaded .38 caliber handgun, along with a speedloader that was full of ammunition.
A backpack belonging to Wilson was found to contain "three additional loaded speed loaders, a box of .38 ammunition, a hammer, a fixed blade knife, tin snips, scissors, a tape measure," and a respirator-style mask, according to the federal filing. Also in the bag were a business card for the National Socialist Movement in Detroit, Michigan and the Covenant Nation Church in Oneonta, Alabama.
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