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South Bend resident raided by ATF had ammunition stockpile, feds say
JOSHUA STOWE
South Bend Tribune
Friday, August 31, 2007
SOUTH BEND — Police and federal agents who searched a South 28th Street home on Wednesday were looking for ammunition, court documents reveal.
A federal affidavit unsealed today indicates that yesterday’s search and arrest came after a months-long investigation into a man whom authorities believe is delusional and has long been stockpiling ammunition.
South Bend police and agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived Wednesday afternoon at the man’s home, in the 900 block of South 28th Street.
ATF agents arrested the 38-year-old man, who was still in the county jail this afternoon, police said.
The federal affidavit indicates there was probable cause to arrest the man for receiving ammunition while he was the subject of a restraining order involving a former girlfriend.
The 16-page document also reveals that the ATF’s Project Disarm Task Force has been investigating the man since mid-April, and that a mental health investigation found he was “suffering from delusions with persecutory tendencies.”
Investigators believe the man thought the global economy was on the verge of a collapse that would result in widespread violence, the affidavit says.
At one point, the man told an ATF task force agent that he wanted to project his property from “thugs from Gary and here in South Bend.”
South Bend resident raided by ATF had ammunition stockpile, feds say
JOSHUA STOWE
South Bend Tribune
Friday, August 31, 2007
SOUTH BEND — Police and federal agents who searched a South 28th Street home on Wednesday were looking for ammunition, court documents reveal.
A federal affidavit unsealed today indicates that yesterday’s search and arrest came after a months-long investigation into a man whom authorities believe is delusional and has long been stockpiling ammunition.
South Bend police and agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived Wednesday afternoon at the man’s home, in the 900 block of South 28th Street.
ATF agents arrested the 38-year-old man, who was still in the county jail this afternoon, police said.
The federal affidavit indicates there was probable cause to arrest the man for receiving ammunition while he was the subject of a restraining order involving a former girlfriend.
The 16-page document also reveals that the ATF’s Project Disarm Task Force has been investigating the man since mid-April, and that a mental health investigation found he was “suffering from delusions with persecutory tendencies.”
Investigators believe the man thought the global economy was on the verge of a collapse that would result in widespread violence, the affidavit says.
At one point, the man told an ATF task force agent that he wanted to project his property from “thugs from Gary and here in South Bend.”
