'Ex-Marine' With 'Right-Wing' Manifesto Built Bombs for Cocaine,
Hoarded Assault WeaponsA Colorado man, who said that he was an ex-Marine and claimed a
"right-wing declaration of independence/constitutionalist political manifesto," built improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to trade for cocaine and hoarded several military-style
assault weapons that may have been converted to machine guns, the Department of Justice
said on Thursday.
According to an affidavit, federal agents with the Bureau of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home of Richard Lawrence Sandberg in Jefferson
County on Thursday after he provided an undercover agent with homemade bombs.
The suspect said that he also had 18 military-grade M67 fragmentation hand grenades, but would
only sell five.
During their first meeting on Tuesday, Sandberg told Abraham that he had built Claymore bombs
with glass shrapnel while serving in war zones, and that the shrapnel could not be detected in
bodies of the victims. The affidavit said that Sandberg
"claimed a right-wing
declaration of independence/constitutionalist political manifesto" and worried that
the Obama administration's current gun safety push was an effort to
take away his guns. Sandberg said that he was in possession of a Berretta pistol, an H&K .45 pistol, an AR-15 5.56
mm rifle and a .50-caliber rifle. And he suggested that at least one of the weapons had been
illegally converted into a fully-automatic machine gun."Sandberg also stated that he was in possession of several thousand rounds of ammunition
and also in possession of uranium-tipped, armor-piercing ammunition," the affidavit noted.
"Improvised Explosive Devices – IEDs – are against federal law, and with good reason:
They have no legitimate purpose, and put an entire neighborhood at risk," U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a statement. “Thanks to strong cooperation between
state, local and federal law enforcement in this case, a person who built IEDs has been
apprehended and those devices recovered and neutralized.”
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