{"id":91946,"date":"2022-12-18T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=91946"},"modified":"2022-12-18T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:07:38","slug":"two-tennessee-men-arrested-for-planning-attacks-on-law-enforcement-personnel-and-the-fbis-knoxville-field-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=91946","title":{"rendered":"Two Tennessee Men Arrested for Planning Attacks on Law Enforcement Personnel and the FBI\u2019s Knoxville Field Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nNew York &#8211; Free Yemen Eye &#8211; From News-FBI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91952 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255-300x297.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255-300x297.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255-1024x1012.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255-768x759.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/E6CE3F27-4EEF-451F-9389-AC61D4BF0255.jpeg 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, and Austin Carter, 26, of Knoxville, Tennessee, with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat, and solicitation to commit a crime of violence. Kelley and Carter made their initial appearance in federal court today in Knoxville before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill E. McCook. Both defendants have been detained. Carter has a detention hearing scheduled for Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to court documents, Kelley, who is facing charges in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia related to his assault on a law enforcement officer during the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, obtained a list of law enforcement personnel who participated in that criminal investigation. In conversations with a cooperating witness, Kelley and Carter discussed collecting information and plans to kill the individual law enforcement personnel on the list that included an attack on the FBI\u2019s Knoxville, Tennessee Field Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department\u2019s National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Francis M. (Trey) Hamilton III for the Eastern District of Tennessee and Assistant Director Robert R. Wells of the FBI\u2019s Counterterrorism Division made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The FBI is investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Arrowood and Kyle Wilson for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Trial Attorneys David Smith and Jacob Warren of the National Security Division\u2019s Counterterrorism Section are prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A complaint is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; Free Yemen Eye &#8211; From News-FBI &nbsp; A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, and Austin Carter, 26, of Knoxville, Tennessee, with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat, and solicitation to commit a crime of violence. 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