Michael Robert Solomon admitted to trying to sell weapons parts to Hamas.
A second member of the antigovernment Boogaloo Bois extremist group pleaded guilty to Minnesota terrorism charges Tuesday, telling a judge that the group sought to leverage unrest after George Floyd’s police killing to raise money for its movement.
Michael Robert Solomon, 31, of New Brighton, admitted Tuesday to selling silencers and other firearm components last year to people be believed were members of the Hamas terror group but who turned out to be FBI informants.
“Honestly, the money was if nothing else more just to keep prepping, to purchase more firearms, more ammunition, more body armor just to prepare for what … we always called the ‘[expletive] hitting the fan,’ ” Solomon told U.S. District Judge Michael Davis in court. Continue reading.