Devon Arthurs, 18, told police he had until recently shared his roommates’ neo-Nazi beliefs, but that he converted to Islam, according to court documents and a statement the Tampa Police Department released Monday. He doesn’t know what’s going on and just found them like you guys did,” Arthurs told the police officers, according to the report. “I had to do it,” Arthurs told police. At first, Russell told agents he kept the explosives from his days in an engineering club at the University of South Florida in 2013, and that he used the substances to boost homemade rockets. “He came in to convert people to Islam,” Auernheimer said during a telephone interview Monday.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 23, 2017 02:48 UTC