FBI Arrests Man Who Allegedly Planned Dylann Roof-Style Attack

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A South Carolina man was arrested in connection with planning a violent white supremacist attack "in the spirit of Dylann Roof," the FBI said in a complaint Thursday.

Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, became known to federal agents after a series of Facebook posts were flagged in which he made threats and professed violent white supremacist ideologies, said Special Agent Grant Lowe of the FBI's office in Columbia.

McDowell, also known as Benji, met with an undercover FBI agent on Wednesday to purchase a gun at the parking lot of a Myrtle Beach Hampton Inn. He was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm, which is illegal due to his pre-existing status as a felon on unrelated charges

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Feds arrest man for allegedly planning Dylann Roof-style attack
 

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Soon after his post, Lowe said, McDowell contacted an undercover FBI agent that he believed "handled problems for the Aryan Nations." In an instant message on Facebook, McDowell requested an "iron," a code word for a firearm, the complaint against him said.

The agent, who is not identified by name in the testimony, said that McDowell complained about other white supremacists, "stating that screaming 'white power' was not getting the job done.'"

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