A 20-year-old man from Sarasota has been indicted on federal charges including possessing an unregistered firearm, possessing a firearm with a removed serial number and receiving child sexual abuse material, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Monday.
Investigators also uncovered evidence that the suspect, Lucas Alexander Temple, had been plotting a racially motivated attack when federal agents searched his home in November, U.S. Attorney Gregory Kehoe said in a press release.
What federal agents say they found inside the Sarasota home
According to the indictment and criminal complaint, federal agents executed a search warrant at Temple’s home in Sarasota on Nov. 20. During the search, agents recovered a shotgun with a sawed-off barrel that was not registered to Temple.
Federal law prohibits the possession of shotguns with barrels shorter than 18 inches unless they are registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, prosecutors said.
Agents also said they found evidence that Temple had been plotting a racially motivated act of violence. Items recovered included multiple firearms, ammunition, pipe bombs, a pressure cooker, literature on how to manufacture explosives and a written plan outlining his intentions…