A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a North Carolina man of instructing others how to build bombs with the intention of targeting federal law enforcement officers.
Christopher Arthur, 39, faces a maximum 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors. He was also found guilty of illegal possession of unregistered devices, including a short-barreled rifle, a silencer, three improvised hand grenades, and an improvised claymore sword, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office in Eastern District of North Carolina.
Mr. Arthur, an Army veteran who returned to the United States in 2010 after his second deployment to Iraq, is the owner of Tackleberry Solutions, a company with the goal of “teaching war time tactics to the everyday citizen.”…