Photo: El Paso County Sheriff's Office via ReutersA self-described white supremacist has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and explosive charges for a botched plot to blow up a historic Colorado synagogue last year, prosecutors say. The temple, built in 1900, is the second oldest synagogue in Colorado and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Colorado Office of the Federal Public Defender, which represents Holzer, does not comment publicly on its cases. Authorities uncovered the plot after FBI agents came across social media postings by Holzer, in which he promoted white supremacy and his hatred for Jewish people, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Holzer enlisted the agents to help acquire explosives and was arrested after the agents provided him with inert pipe bombs and sticks of dynamite.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 15, 2020 22:18 UTC