July 09, 2009 11:03 am
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(AP) — A McDonald County man with ties to white supremacists who have been charged in an Arizona bombing will be held in prison without bond.
U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge James C. England on Wednesday ordered Robert N. Joos held without bond on a charge of being a felon in possession of firearms.
Federal prosecutors say an undercover investigation found that people involved in the white supremacist movement in the United States met for survival training at Joos’ property.
England said in his ruling that a search of Joos’ property in McDonald County found more than a dozen firearms, blasting caps, gunpowder and fuses.
Joos was arrested as part of an investigation into a 2004 mail bombing in Scottsdale, Ariz., that injured the director of a diversity office. Prosecutors allege that the first call one of the suspects made after the bombing was to Joos.
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