U.S. attorney: Hutaree member shot (his own) cat to prepare for attack

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Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: March 31. 2010 5:57PM
U.S. attorney: Hutaree member shot cat to prepare for attack
Paul Egan and Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News


Detroit -- A member of a radical militia group told others he killed his cat with a handgun as part of his training for a pending war against law enforcement, a federal prosecutor said today in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet said Hutaree defendant Kristopher Sickles made the claim in January to defendant Joshua Stone in the presence of a federal undercover agent who was posing as someone who could provide the group with explosives.

Sickles, 27, of Sandusky, Ohio, "said he did it to 'see if I could do it, to see if I could kill something I had a feeling for,' " Waterstreet said at a detention hearing for seven of the nine Hutaree defendants.

A grand jury indictment unsealed Monday alleges the group planned to kill a police officer and then use bombs to attack the scores of officers drawn to the slain officer's funeral. The defendants are charged with seditious conspiracy, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and other weapons offenses.

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