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Pipe-bomb suspect faces new charges
SPOKANE, Wash., A former lawyer for a white supremacist group, charged in a murder-for-hire plot, will return to federal court in Idaho to face further charges, officials say.
Edgar J. Steele, 65, already faces a possible 10-year prison term for an alleged plot federal agents say began in December and was meant to kill his wife and mother-in-law, the (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review reported Thursday.
Steele, who once represented the Aryan Nations, will be arraigned next week on three additional charges, including attempted victim tampering, the newspaper said.
He was arrested June 11 after an FBI informant recorded Steele allegedly plotting to put pipe bombs in the cars of his wife and mother-in-law.
Along with victim tampering and use of interstate commerce to commission murder for hire, Steele is charged with use of explosive material to commit a federal felony and possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.
Steele allegedly tried to "intimidate and corruptly persuade" his wife in phone calls he made from jail to lie about the identity of the voice on tape recording in which Steele allegedly discusses the homicide plot, prosecutors say.
SPOKANE, Wash., A former lawyer for a white supremacist group, charged in a murder-for-hire plot, will return to federal court in Idaho to face further charges, officials say.
Edgar J. Steele, 65, already faces a possible 10-year prison term for an alleged plot federal agents say began in December and was meant to kill his wife and mother-in-law, the (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review reported Thursday.
Steele, who once represented the Aryan Nations, will be arraigned next week on three additional charges, including attempted victim tampering, the newspaper said.
He was arrested June 11 after an FBI informant recorded Steele allegedly plotting to put pipe bombs in the cars of his wife and mother-in-law.
Along with victim tampering and use of interstate commerce to commission murder for hire, Steele is charged with use of explosive material to commit a federal felony and possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.
Steele allegedly tried to "intimidate and corruptly persuade" his wife in phone calls he made from jail to lie about the identity of the voice on tape recording in which Steele allegedly discusses the homicide plot, prosecutors say.
