FBI special agents searched the home of Ines and Elizabeth Soto in the days after a police officer was shot in July outside a detention center in Johnson County where the government confines immigrants it intends to deport.
Two months later, the agents, assigned to the bureau’s counterterror squad, returned to the couple’s house in Fort Worth for a second time to pursue items they missed during the first search.
The agents were looking for evidence of mass production of propaganda, FBI Special Agent Morris Boatner testified on Wednesday at a trial in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth of nine people, including the Sotos, who government prosecutors indicted in connection with the shooting. The North Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges the defendants were motivated by anti-government anger, particularly on immigration matters…