Texas border militia member will soon learn fate after agents seized AK-47, ammonium nitrate
Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (right) is seen posing with border militia member Kevin Massey at an Oct. 16 campaign event in Brownsville. Four days later, federal authorities arrested Massey on federal weapons charges.
BROWNSVILLE -- Kevin Lyndel "K.C." Massey a member of a militia group that patrolled the U.S.-Mexico border last year with firearms in search of undocumented immigrants will be tried by a federal judge instead of a jury, according to news reports.
Massey requested to be tried by U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen in Brownsville and waive his right to a jury trial Wednesday after being charged with four counts of felon in possession of a firearm in October,
The McAllen Monitor reported.
The Monitor reported that Massey's trial is scheduled for Aug. 24.
Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who searched Massey's hotel room in Brownsville after an Oct. 20 arrest, found an AK-47 with six loaded magazines, a loaded handgun, a ballistic helmet and several cameras, as well as the ammunition box filled with suspected ammonium nitrate and fuel, according to court documents obtained by the S
an Antonio Express-News.
Massey was arrested in connection to an Aug. 29 incident during which a Border Patrol agent fired four shots at a man pointing a weapon at the agent near the Rio Grande while pursuing a group of immigrants east of Brownsville, according to documents from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville.
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[font color=330099]Note the defaced Texas flag in the background.[/font]