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 FacebookTwitterEmail 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.