Antisemitic ex-security guard who sniffed rifle and talked about 'dead Jews' gets 6 years in prison
A bigoted former security guard will spend six years in prison after pleading guilty to threats in an Ohio state prison.
Thomas Develin is seen here sniffing a rifle. “This one smells like dead Jews,” he said as he sniffed the firearm, prosecutors said. (Image: U.S. Department of Justice)
Thomas M. Develin, 25, will spend time in the Buckeye State while concurrently serving a separate five-year, 11-month federal sentence for firearm charges. Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice had sought seven years and three months in prison.
Because Mr. Develin transferred firearms to people he had reason to believe intended to use or dispose of the firearms unlawfully, the Court should apply the enhancement for a defendant who ‘engaged in the trafficking of firearms,'” they wrote.
Federal investigators previously said they discovered 25 guns and a 3D printer when executing a search warrant at his home in March 2022. That printer was used to make untraceable homemade weapons or “ghost guns,” authorities said.
Develin was demonstrably antisemitic but also worked as a security guard for a company providing services for synagogues and Jewish schools. Federal authorities referenced Develin’s activity on Discord and Snapchat. They described that activity as rife with antisemitic, white nationalist, racist, and misogynist content. His social media activity was infused with a fixation on firearms, ideations about committing terrorist attacks, and visceral bigotry.
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