By Steve Neavling
A Tennessee man who insisted the U.S. was “being invaded” by illegal immigrants planned to launch an attack on migrants and federal law enforcement at the southern border using an arsenal of weapons and explosives, according to a federal complaint.
Paul Faye Sr. is accused of plotting with militia groups and telling an undercover FBI agent that he planned to serve as a sniper.
The idea, he said, was to “stir up the hornet’s nest” by inspiring others to join him.
“What’s going to happen. What I hope happens. Is called a domino effect,” he said, according to the FBI.
Faye allegedly told an undercover agent last year that the “patriots are going to rise up because we are being invaded. We are being invaded.”
He was driven by conspiracy theories that the U.S. government was “training to take on its citizens” and that the Biden administration was intentionally allowing illegal immigrants into the U.S., according to the FBI.
Faye was in possession of an arsenal of ammo, radios, a bullet-proof vest, AR-15s, a shotgun, a Creedmoor rifle, and other firearms, according to the complaint.
He said he would need certain tactical equipment, implying that he and others would be able to get those from “deceased Border Patrol agents,” the FBI alleges.
Faye faces up to 10 years in prison on multiple charges.
