An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown.
James Reardon Jr., 20, has been charged with telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on $250,000 bond with a court hearing planned for Monday morning.
On Friday, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided Reardon’s house and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of round of ammo, multiple semi-automatic weapons, a gas mask and bulletproof armor.
“Grateful for the work of the FBI, local law enforcement and our community partners in the Youngstown Jewish community. We will continue to employ all our resources to stop the spread of white nationalism and violent extremism,” the Anti-Defamation League in Cleveland tweeted.
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Police initially became aware of Reardon on July 11 when he posted a video on Instagram of a man shooting a semi-automatic rifle with sirens and screams in the background. He tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown in the post.
“That kicked off an intense investigation, a very rapidly evolving investigation, because of the way the world is,” New Middletown Police Chief Vince D’Egidio told Youngstown ABC affiliate WYTV.
Reardon is an avowed anti-Semite and white nationalist and attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to WYTV. During the raid on his house on Friday police also discovered anti-Semitic and white nationalist propaganda.
Extra security was given to the community during the police investigation, which will remain in place for the near future, police said. But even though the active threat has ceased, there is still active concern among some in the community.
“I’m confident that we are doing what we need to do at this point, but the world has changed and we always have to assess what we are doing moving forward,” said Andrew Lipkin, from the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation.
A man killed 11 people when he opened fire on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, only an hour southeast of Youngstown, last October.
Reardon had publicly stated before that he wanted to see a homeland established for white people when he was interviewed for a documentary, according to D’Egidio. Police also discovered that his social media feed was filled with racial slurs and derogatory statements about minorities.
“This is a person that has declared himself as a white nationalist. With the hate crimes and everything else going on, we want to make sure we do our part to make sure this person was taken off the streets very quickly,” D’Egidio said.
The FBI has not yet announced whether they will pursue federal charges against Reardon.
(AP)
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Another Islamofascist terrorist!! Send him back to Somalia!! Oops, sorry, wrong stereotype there. But aren’t all our enemies either Muslim, black or progressive Democrats? Why is it always white Christians who want to shoot up our shuls and community centers? Maybe we should do a reassessment of who is a risk for us.
At least B”H they caught this guy before he did anything.
Chasdei H’. Great thanks to law enforcement and their work.
Even if he gets his “White Homeland,” that will not end the violence. They would always be harassing other countries.
May a loooong prison sentence wipe that evil smile off his face!
This anti Semite was one of those at the Charlottesville demonstration that included “very fine people” as Trump said.
“Reardon is an avowed anti-Semite and white nationalist and attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to WYTV.” So, was he one of the good people on both sides?
Why didn’t YWN run an article about Conor Climo, another white supremacist who was arrested for plotting an attack on a synagogue in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago?
The Americas do not belong to the white people and achieving a rightful “white homeland” can only be acomplished on the European continent. All denominations living on this continent are doing so by virtue of the indigenous peoples that actually do belong here. No one but the indigenous tribes has any right to claim this land. The “white” people who are not happy with that can go back from where they came from!
Midwest, it isn’t “always white Christians who want to shoot up our shuls and community centers”. White nationalists (almost all of whom are NOT Xians of any sort) are a very tiny group — fewer than 500 serious activists and no more than 10,000 armchair supporters. The real threats are from Isralmists and Marxists, each of whom number in the tens of thousands and can be found everywhere, especially on college campuses.
Yaacov Doe, yes, he was at the demonstration that included many fine people. Why is that surprising? How does his presence reflect on those fine people?
Huju, no, of course he was not one of the good people, and he certainly wasn’t on both sides! The plain and obvious fact is that there were good people on both sides, and anyone who tries to deny it merely shows their own hatred and bigotry.
“Isralmists” => “Islamists”
yaakov doe and huju you are two low IQ morons who believe in the lie if it is repeated often enough. You should get updated talking points from DNC,, this Trump’s “quote” about “very fine people” was debunked long time ago.
May be this Nazi was inspired by Ilhan Omar and NYT who accused Jews of controlling US Government and the world?
“Jews are OK. They’re *almost* as good as white people.” That’s the sort of thing I heard growing up in the Middle West. That was standard up until the ’60s or so. Jews weren’t really seen as “white,” just not as bad as those other “non-white” people. If we think the people who worry about what color somebody is think we’re the same as “white,” we’re fooling ourselves. There would be no place for us in a “white” society.
MIG- it’s debunked if you wear earplugs with your hands over them. Please consider asking mechila for the smear, it is beneath the dignity of a Yid to do such a thing. It can be done and expected to be done by trump, not by a Yid.
rt, and other Village Idiots on this forum, here is what Trump actually said:
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
I doubt your bird size brain can absorb the above.
Conspiracy theory moment: rt and MoisheInGolus are both the same person (a bored Lakewood bachur on Bein Hazmanim break).
MoisheInGalus: Why must you be so uncivil and resort to derogatory name calling -“Low IQ Morons, Village Idiots and Bird sized brain”. If you have an opposing point, make it like a gentleman. We can all debate the issues peacefully and with gentility. No need to cause undue animosity.
My apologies: MoishInGolus I did not mean to misspell your name. Forgive me.
Sosha, the time for “civility” long gone. Leftist Democrat mod who pollute this site with their constant vicious lies must be confronted and exposed for what they are.
It is impossible and inappropriate to “debate issues peacefully and with gentility” with people who viciously slander a person who is a demonstrated ohev yisroel, and who comes by it honestly as the son of a demonstrated ohev yisroel.
MoisheInGolus and Milhouse: I understand what you are saying and the passionate feelings you have about this. However, and I say this from experience, the only (emphasis on only) ohev Yisroel is Yisroel. As my parents used to tell my siblings and me: “you only have each other”. And as all Klal Yisrael are siblings, truly we only have each other. No one else in the whole world cares for us but us.