Two men, including one from mid-Missouri, are sentenced in federal court for a conspiracy to murder border patrol officers and the attempted murder of FBI agents.
Jonathan O’Dell, 35, of Warsaw, and Bryan Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, co-founded a group called 2nd American Militia to recruit members to join them when they traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to shoot and kill illegal immigrants. In a social media post, Perry stated they’d kill any U.S. Border Patrol member who tried to stop them.
Perry moved to Missouri in 2022 to live with O’Dell while they attempted to recruit members and collected firearms, ammunition, and paramilitary gear…