By Bob Walsh
An
undated photo of Jeremy Crahan from the Washington State Department of
Corrections between two images of a man seen on surveillance video
believed to be Matthew Greenwood outside the Elk Plain substation in
Pierce County.
Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, both
residents of Puyallup, WA, are currently guests of the county and are
under suspicion of the attacks on several area substation attacks over
the Christmas holidays.
Cell
phone tracking and some surveillance footage of a pickup truck led the
cops to the suspects. They were found to be in possession of two
cut-down rifles, one with a home made silencer. None of these were
registered.
The men are
being charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession
of unregistered NFA firearms. They could, in theory, get 30 years
total if found guilty and hammered on the sentencing. Damage to the
facilities runs into the millions of dollars.
The local SO sang the praises of the feds in this investigation. Sometimes the feds actually do help.
Turns out the whole thing (at least in this location at this time) was done in the furtherance of a couple of tacky burglaries. No White Supremacist or anti-government B.S. How terribly banal.
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