Dan Roberts, a 68-year-old from Georgia who was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to obtain an unregistered explosive device and silencer as part of a plot to attack government officials, appealed his sentence on Wednesday. Roberts is one of four individuals arrested in November who was allegedly part of an organization called the “covert group” that met at a Waffle House and plotted a biological attack against the government.
Roberts, a supporter of flying the Confederate flag, allegedly told his co-conspirators he was working with a “loose cannon” former Army officer who could manufacture the biological agent ricin. He was able to obtain what appeared to be radios that were stolen from the Army in Afghanistan. At one point he allegedly expressed concern about buying an explosive device from an undercover FBI agent because he was concerned the individual could be a “cop.”
