Regan Darby Prater, a 28-year-old white supremacist residing in Tennessee, pleaded guilty to providing Hezbollah with the names of 35,000 individuals he alleged were affiliated with Israel, the US Justice Department announced on Monday.
Prater entered a guilty plea to one count of arson and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Prater admitted that, in 2019, he attempted to provide material support to Hezbollah, which included the document purporting to contain personally identifiable information of over 35,000 individuals alleged to be affiliated with the government of Israel. โStart the hunt,โ he wrote to an individual he believed to be associated with the Iran-backed terrorist organization.
More recently, Prater admitted to planting a napalm-based sparkler bomb in the Highlander Center, a school for grassroots leaders and social movements, causing $1.2 million in damage. In court, he admitted that his attack was motivated by his white supremacist ideology and in opposition to the centerโs association with the civil rights movement.
Before detonating the bomb, Prater spray-painted the symbol of the Iron Guard, a 1930s-era paramilitary arm of the Romanian Nazi Party, in the centerโs parking lot.
US District Judge Thomas A. Varlan will sentence Prater on September 9, where Prater could receive up to 20 years in federal prison, along with related fines, restitution, and a term of supervised release to be served after he is released from custody.
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