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FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state

Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.

Sanders’ statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.

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I live across the river from Washington and I have a friend that lives over there in the mountains. When I drive to her spot, it's nothing but hard MAGA country for miles. This does not surprise me at all. One of her dogs got loose and ran into the neighbor's yard a while back and, one of her children went to get the dog. The neighbor ran out with a gun and threatened the child at gunpoint because she was on his property. A fucking 14 year old kid.
- Oregon Territory was founded as a whites-only ethnostate.
  
  America was founded as a whites-only ethnostate. We had some pretty big fights about that.
- Lots of rural Washington is MAGA/Nazi territory. Especially Eastern Washington.
  And apparently the state has a history of problems with private militias, because the state constitution guarantees firearm ownership for self defense while at the same time forbidding belonging to a militia.
  So this story isn’t a surprise.
- I just assume every rural area is like that. Doesn’t matter how liberal the state.
"Oh no he's not a nazi, he's just a collector and gun enthusiast! He's just a good ol' boy!"
- "He's autistic!"
  
  i realize this is /s, but i kinda wish people would not continue to conflate autism with nazism, even as a joke.
- A collector would have steam released the wrinkles in those flags.
  This dudes a nutcan.
  
  A collector wouldn't have one made of polyester they got on Amazon
Why would they raid their own??
Queue Trump pardon in 3, 2, 1...
- This just in, a new head of ICE has been hired.
- And a cabinet position.
So they essentially raided one of their subsidiaries?
- Skipped right past the job interview and are speed running him through the on boarding process. Has serious leadership potential.
If your Nazi flags still have creases in them, they are not "vintage collectibles."
FFS iron your flags /s
- I don’t see why the /s if you are prideful enough to display a flag on a wall at least make it look like not crap.
  That these particular flags are from harmful ideology is sad but does not counter this.
  Its tripple sad.
  nazi is always sad
  no flag respect sad
  probably think ironing is for women and afraid to do it sad.
  
  Its there because I'm not trying to defer attention away from the flags' content.
- This man has probably never ironed anything in his life.
- The crosses are iron at least
Test for sperm on those flags
It was their own house, wasn’t it?
Derek Sanders sucks in a lot of very legitimate ways, but bare minimum, at least he's not a Nazi sympathizer.
- I don't see anything on there article that implies he's not. There were multiple agencies involved, gotta play by the books.

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