A federal grand jury indictment found that a weapon supplier in Arizona sold weapons to an undercover federal agent he believed would help him take out his strategy for a mass shooting targeting immigrants, an assault he hoped would “incite a contest war.”
The grand jurors in Arizona on Tuesday indicted Mark Adams Prieto on suspicion of weapons prostitution, transferring a weapon for hate crime, and possessing an unlicensed weapon.
Court records did n’t list an attorney who could comment on Prieto’s behalf. A lawyer who provided a brief defense to Prieto after he was detained next month in the nearby state of New Mexico did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
The prosecution says the 58- yr- ancient from Prescott, Arizona, recruited the covert FBI agent and an agent at a gun show where Prieto was a vendor.
Prieto told them, according to the indictment, that he had been considering staging a mass murder of minority groups for a while in an effort to “incite a contest war” before the November presidential election. According to the indictment, Prieto after found the attack at a music concert in Atlanta in the middle of May.
According to the indictment, the killing was initially planned for in January and continued for several weeks at gun indicates in Arizona, including in Phoenix and Tucson. At the cannon shows, the accusation alleges, Prieto sold two rifles to be used in the firing to the FBI broker.
Prieto was detained in New Mexico on May 14 as he drove south from Arizona to attend the Atlanta musical. Regulators claimed they discovered seven weapon inside his car.
Following his arrest, court documents show, a U. S. district judge in New Mexico ordered Prieto to stay in federal prison, saying the” sincerity of harm to the area is serious” if he was to become released.
