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Md. Father Told Police Of Alleged Bomb Plot
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Michelle Crnkovich, a spokeswoman for the FBI, said she believed Weiler did not contact the bureau until Wednesday -- the day Weiler said he had his second conversation with an agent. In a letter to a judge in an unrelated Prince George's case, the elder Weiler wrote that his son had made "some very poor decisions" and was living at home, working at a Pizza Hut in Laurel and trying to repay debt he incurred as a result of past mistakes. Weiler wrote the letter to offer room and board to the defendant in that case, Kevin H. Murphy, a childhood friend of his son's. Murphy had been charged in 2001 with detonating an explosive device and vandalizing a church and two schools. He was convicted in 2002 of defacing religious property.
Yesterday, Weiler said Murphy and his son, along with the man at whose home the pipe bomb was stored, met at a school for emotionally troubled youths. "He's been a troubled child for a long time," Weiler said of his son.
In the letter, Weiler wrote that he and his wife, a government worker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, are volunteers and active in the Catholic Chapel Community at Andrews Air Force Base, as well as in the Knights of Columbus.
In the 2001 case, Murphy and three other white youths, ages 13 to 19, were accused of spray-painting racist graffiti at two churches and a school, according to charging documents. The documents allege that they similarly defaced a nearby church, painting a symbol -- "2-18-11" -- that investigators said was tied to Murphy's membership in an "anarchist/satanic cult gang" called the Brotherhood of the Red Knights. Messages left for him yesterday were not returned.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, which study hate groups, said they were not familiar with the organization named in the documents.
Last night, as they spoke by telephone for the first time since before Memorial Day, the father told the son that it was his tip that led to the younger man's arrest.
"He said he expected it," Weiler Sr. said. "I'm just glad nobody actually got hurt."
Staff writers Allison Klein, Ruben Castaneda, Ernesto Londoño and Sudarsan Raghavan contributed to this report.
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