Story Published:
Jul 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM CDT
SPRINGFIELD -- A man with ties to white supremacists who are charged for a bombing in Arizona will be held in a county jail without bond. U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge James England on Wednesday ordered Robert Joos of rural McDonald County to be held without bond on a charge of being a felon in possession of firearms.
Federal prosecutors say an undercover investigation found people involved in the white supremacist movement in the United States met for survival training at Joos' property. England said in his ruling that a search of Joos' property in McDonald County found more than a dozen firearms, blasting caps, gunpowder and fuses.
Joos was arrested as part of an investigation into a mail bombing in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2004 that injured the director of a diversity office. Prosecutors allege that the first call that one of the suspects made after the bombing was to Joos.
