JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Mid-Missouri man and his co-defendant from Tennessee of plotting to travel to the Texas-Mexico border with a plan to murder immigrants and officers.
Jonathan S. O’Dell, 34, of Warsaw, Missouri, and Bryan C. Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, were found guilty in a federal court in Jefferson City of conspiracy to murder officers and employees of the U.S. government, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office.
The men planned to travel to Texas to shoot at illegal immigrant crossing the border and to shoot any federal Boder Patrol agents who tried to stop them, according to authorities.
The men were also found guilty of seven counts of attempting to murder FBI agents, seven counts of assaulting FBI agents with a deadly weapon, three counts of assaulting FBI agents, 14 counts of using a gun in a violent crime and one count of damaging federal property.
O’Dell was also found guilty to threatening to injure another person. He also pleaded guilty when the trial started to illegally having a gun while under court order, making a false statement to a federal agent and one count of escaping from custody.