The last man in a neo-Nazi group dominated by veterans has pleaded guilty to charges related to their plot to target energy facilities in the northwest U.S., federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Jordan Duncan, 29, a former Marine assigned previously to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the manufacturing of a firearm, the U.S. attorney’s office in Idaho, Duncan’s home state, announced in a statement.
Duncan’s co-conspirators discussed recruiting veterans into “a modern-day SS” on a now-defunct neo-Nazi message board called Iron March; stole military equipment; discussed plans to manufacture firearms; and “gathered a library of information, some military-owned, regarding firearms, explosives, and nerve toxins,” according to Tuesday’s statement.
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The group of extremists that Duncan belonged to was allegedly active between 2017 and 2020, according to federal indictments. Aside from him, the group was made up of another pair of 25-year-old Marine veterans — Liam Collins, a former lance corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune, and Justin Hermanson, who was in the same Marine unit as Collins. Army National Guardsman Joseph Maurino, 25, was also part of the group.
The last member of the group was 38-year-old Paul Kryscuk, who appears not to have a military background.
The indictment described the group as starting to…
