The five men arrested in the plot to have now been indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
The self-proclaimed anarchists will each face three counts stemming from a plan hatched over several months to blow up the State Route 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Brandon Baxter, 20, of Lakewood, Douglas L. Wright, 26, Anthony Hayne, 35, Connor C. Stevens, 20, and Joshua S. Stafford, 23, face charges including one count of attempted use of an explosive.
The men had hoped to use C-4 explosives to blow up the bridge, after deciding against other targets such as the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland and the Detroit-Superior Bridge, according to an affidavit.
However, the men — — bought fake bomb-making materials from an undercover FBI agent.
They were arrested Monday night.
The men — all fringe members of the Occupy Cleveland movement — are also charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction to destroy a highway carrying interstate commerce and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
The men face up to life in prison for the charges, said Mike Tobin, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
He wouldn't comment on whether the men will face additional charges.
Represented by different attorneys, the men are scheduled to appear at 11 a.m. May 7 at the federal courthouse in Cleveland for a detention hearing and a preliminary hearing.
They will remain in custody until then.
You also claim that Occupy did nothing to stop these people from attempting to blow up the bridge. This is false. It was members within the Occupy movement that called the police when they tried to incite violence. This probably tipped off the FBI and their eventual arrest. Can you tell me what the Tea Party did to prevent Jason Todd Ready from going on a shooting spree?
Tom: So Ready went to both the Tea Party and Occupy. This goes perfectly with my point. Just because you have a radical person, that does not mean that they constitue the whole. I'm still waiting for you to show me the general assemblies voting to use violence. Again, you need to start using basic grammar. It's almost impossible to tell what you are saying. You could start by capitalizing the first letter of the sentence. Murphy: Wrong. He was much closer to the Tea Party movement who supported his anti-immigration policy. In fact, one of the themes in Occupy Phoenix is the treatment of illegal aliens and they are highly agaisnt both neo-nazis and the minutemen.
When it comes to 'brain dead', you seem to own that aspect. You write like a moron. Shut it.
There's no dues, or applications. There's no "there" there. They are "supporters", but not "leaders". What's your point?
Scofflaws!