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FBI arrests two would-be Ferguson bomb suspects law enforcement source - Yahoo News
2 of them arrested for firearms charges and bomb charges. Ya they are no threat alright.
An ex-Black Panther suspected of the ambush murders of two New York City police officers in 1972 was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for repeatedly selling heroin to an undercover police officer in the Capital Region. Law enforcement officials — including New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch and Andrew Vale, the local head of the FBI — packed a third-floor courtroom in Albany County Court to watch justice imposed by Judge Peter Lynch on 65-year-old Robert Vickers. The defendant reinvented himself as a Saratoga County public works employee despite a past that included him being sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison for weapons possession and assault in 1973 in a case tied to the shooting of a Newark, N.J., police officer.
Vickers, also known as Rashad Abdur-Rahman, has long been suspected in Jan. 27, 1972, murders of NYPD officers Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster in Manhattan. The radical Black Liberation Army group claimed responsibility for the officers' murders in the days after Laurie, 23, a white officer from Staten Island, and Foster, 22, a black officer from the Bronx, were ambushed while on foot patrol in the East Village. The judge made it clear that he was not sentencing Vickers based on uncharged crimes, but said he would consider all the evidence that came out at the drug trial. That evidence included testimony that a duffel bag found across the street from the scene of the officers' murders in 1972 contained a bomb-making manual that belonged to Vickers.
Robert Vickers aka Rashad Abdur-Rahman
The judge noted evidence in the drug case also showed Vickers "describing how best to assassinate individuals, the best weapons to use and his plan to assassinate another individual for the purposes of, I think it was three kilos of heroin." Assistant District Attorney Jasper Mills told the judge that Vickers touted an ability to "make bombs and silencers" and said the "perfect assassination weapon" was a .22 caliber gun, which he sold to an informant in the case. "It's easy to kill someone," Vickers said on a surveillance video, according to Mills. "The hard part is getting away with it."
The prosecutor said Vickers exhibited a chilling support for violence and the destruction caused by heroin. Vickers was so callous in his heroin dealing, Mills said, that he was caught on video offering a chilling tutorial on how to maximize sales. "You want word to spread that people are overdosing and dying while using your product. That will drive addicts to you and increase sales," Vickers said on the video. Vickers was convicted at trial of selling heroin to an undercover police officer six times between Sept. 20, 2013, and Jan. 6, 2014, at locations in Albany and Menands. Vickers' attorney, longtime Albany lawyer Michael Feit , argued at trial — and in court Thursday — that Vickers fell victim to entrapment because he is a suspect in the officers murders.
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