Edward Kelley was planning to attack an FBI office in Knoxville using bombs that hid in the car and incendiary equipment attached to the drones. He also wanted to assassinate FBI employees in their homes or in the public.
Lifetime imprisonment imprisonment imposed on Wednesday the US court to 36-year-old Edward Kelley, who planned to kill agents of the US Federal Federal Office for Investigation (FBI), verifying his involvement in the attack on chapters from 2021.
Kelley had a list of potential victims and accomplice
In November, Kelley was convicted of the conspiracy in November to assassinate federal employees of IZ other crimes. According to the US Department of Justice, this American planned to attack an FBI office in Knoxville, Tennessee, using the bombs he had in the car, and incendiary equipment attached to drones, and also murder FBI employees in their homes or in public.
The Ministry of Justice also said on Wednesday that Kelley had developed a list of members of the law enforcement authorities, which he wanted to kill and, along with videos containing their shots, sent them to his accomplice and co -defended – Austin Carter. In January 2024, he confessed to the accusation of the conspiracy, and the judgment should fall on 4 August.
The convicted person was one of the troublemakers who invaded the chapter in 2021
Kelley is one of over 1500 people to whom President Donald Trump granted grace after his return to the White House in January in connection with their participation in the chapter of 6 January 2021. Kelley was one of the first troublemakers of Trump who invaded chapter building. the accusations. However, these actions were subject to Trump’s later grace.
Kelley’s lawyer claimed that grace should also apply to charges in the case of planning the murder of FBI agents, but the prosecutors refused. “In this case, the defendant’s conduct was not related to the events that occurred in or near the chapter,” they said in the court file. They added that Kelley was planning the murder at the end of 2022 in Tennessee.
