Whitehall man who once planned racial hit squad caught with rifles, ammo
Ex-con Shane Smith taken into custody after FBI says the caught hit with forbidden weapons and ammunition
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FILE The James T. Foley United States Courthouse in Albany, N.Y.Times Union
Shane Robert Smith, 24, of Whitehall who told an undercover officer “I love violence” and whose listed interests included “destroying the government” before his prior arrest in 2015 was charged with having two short-barrel rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition as a felon, federal prosecutors in Albany said Thursday.
Under federal law, convicted felons are not permitted to possess guns. Smith allegedly had the weapons in his home on Dec. 15.