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...Order's founder, Robert Jay Mathews, 31, died last December. Holed up in a waterfront house on Whidbey Island in Washington State, Mathews fired some 1,000 rounds of ammunition at an army of federal and local police who were trying to arrest him. The fusillade ended when an illumination flare blew up a cache of ammo, the house--and Mathews...
...gang's founder, Robert J. Mathews, 31, was killed during a gunfight with federal agents on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution...
Isabel Norby Whidbey Island, Wash...
Entrapment is the illegal and unsavory practice of luring someone into committing a crime and then prosecuting him for it. The question for the Supreme Court last week was whether the following situation qualified: Under cover Narcotics Agent Joe Shapiro suspected that Richard Russell of Whidbey Island, Wash., was manufacturing methamphetamine pep pills (or speed), so Shapiro offered to do business with him. As part of the deal, Shapiro supplied a hard-to-get chemical ingredient. After Russell produced the speed and sold him some, Shapiro eventually made the arrest. Was that entrapment or a necessary and lawful...