Summary

POSSIBLE TERRORISTS IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY UNDER SUSPICION OF TRY TO BLOW UP A GAS STORAGE AREA.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 174921
Story Slug Terrorists In Court
Location Sacramento, California
Format Pkg
Date 12/6/1999
Archive Time 25:24
TRT 1:34
Supers Sacramento, California Jodi Rafkin, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Kiles, Defendant's Son Lynn Diehl, Reporting
Video Description ARTIST'S DEPICTION OF COURTROOM; RAFKIN SOT; STAND-UP; DRAWING; INFORMANT DRAWING; DEFENDANT DRAWING; "SUBURBAN PROPANE" AND T.V. TOWERS; "SEARCH WARRANTS" GRAPHIC OF QUOTES; JASON KILES SOT.
Description POSSIBLE TERRORISTS IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY UNDER SUSPICION OF TRY TO BLOW UP A GAS STORAGE AREA.
Script LEAD: IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN AMBITIOUS PLOT... FOILED BY INVESTIGATORS. TWO MEN WERE PLANNING TO BLOW UP A PROPANE FACILITY IN ELK GROVE, CALIFORNIA. SEARCH WARRANTS REVEAL A PLAN TO CREATE MASS CHOAS AND A MILITIA TAKEOVER. THE WARRANTS ALSO LED TO THE SEIZURE OF GUNS, AMMUNITION AND CHEMICALS. AND NOW... MUCH MORE IS BEING LEARNED ABOUT THE TWO MEN WHO ARE ACCUSED OF BEING BEHIND IT. DID THEIR PLANS GO BEYOND BLOWING UP THE FACILITY? LYNN DIEHL HAS BEEN GOING OVER THEIR PLAN AND LOOKING INTO THE BACKGROUNDS OF THE TWO SUSPECTS. (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: FEDERAL PROSECUTORS CLAIM 42 YEAR-OLD KEVIN PATTERSON ON THE VIEWERS LEFT... AND 49 YEAR-OLD CHARLES KILE ON THE RIGHT ARE CONSPIRATORS. THEY FACE 8 CRIMINAL COUNTS INCLUDING WARRANTSCKING AND MANUFACTURING AN ASSAULT RIFLE. SOT-JODI RAFKIN MORE CHARGES MAY FOLLOW... AND ADDITIONAL ARRESTS AREN'T RULED OUT. STAND UP-LYNN DIEHL THE WARRENTS SHOW AN INVESTIGATION THAT BEGAN MORE THAN A YEAR AGO... AN INFORMANT WHO IS HIMSELF FACING OTHER FIREARMS CHARGES. ...THE INFORMANT CALLS THE PAIR LONGTIME FRIENDS WITH EXTENSIVE TIES TO MILITIA GROUPS. THE WARRENTS DETAIL A PICTURE OF A PLOT TO BLOW UP SUBURBAN PROPANE...THE TV TOWERS IN WALNUT GROVE... AND A PG&E SUBSTATION... AND THE CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT. THE WARRANT SAYS THE CRIMINAL ACTS WERE PLANNED BY THE JOAQUIN COUNTY MILITIA TO CAUSE SOCIAL UNREST... LEADING TO MARTIAL LAW... ALLOWING SOME TYPE OF ACTION ON THE PART OF MILITIA GROUPS WHICH WOULD LEAD TO CURRENT U-S GOVERNMENT BEING OVERTHROWN. SOT-JASON KILES JASON KILES SAYS HIS FATHER WHOM HE LAST SAW TWO WEEKS AGO APPEARS TO BE SHOOK UP... AND CALLS THE WEAPONS CHARGES AND TERRORIST TALK RIDICULOUS. TAG: KILES IS A FELON CONVICTED IN 1992 OF OWNING ILLEGAL WEAPONS AND SILENCERS. THE TWO WERE NOT ARRAIGNED TODAY... BUT WILL BE TOMORROW AFTERNOON.
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