Moscow Shooter, A Government Agent?

Jason Hamilton, the man who went on a shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho on 20 May 2007.

Information is coming out that is causing me some concern regarding this individual. Information that is causing me to think that this guy was not some kind of 'lone nut'.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two were wounded in a late-night sniper attack in the town of Moscow, Idaho, KREM-TV said on Sunday.

Moscow Police Sgt. Lee Newbill was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital following the shooting attack that started outside the Latah County Courthouse on Saturday. A civilian and another police officer were also injured in that attack and remain hospitalized, KREM said on its Web site.

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Jason Kenneth Hamilton, the man responsible for the deadly shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, was a card-carrying Aryan Nations member licensed by the federal government to possess fully automatic weapons, including a military-style machine gun, sources confirmed Tuesday.

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Aryan Nations again? This movement has been so thoroughly infiltrated by Federal Agents that it's surprising that there are any real members left.

So he's a Neo-Nazi that was given a license to carry automatic firearms by the BATF?

The guy also has an arrest sheet that is quite extensive.

Rausch confirmed that Hamilton also had a concealed weapons permit in Latah County, despite a domestic violence conviction that should have barred him from owning guns.

Hamilton had an extensive criminal history in Idaho, Arizona, California and Oklahoma, including arrests for violent crimes, domestic battery and drugs, according to court records obtained Tuesday by The Spokesman-Review.

Court records indicate the high school dropout, who received a GED from the University of Idaho about seven years ago, was first arrested in California for a domestic violence charge soon after his 21st birthday.

Hamilton’s first contact with Latah County authorities was in 1999, when he was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm at a building or vehicle and two misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace. An arrest report was not immediately available Tuesday, and Rausch said he was not familiar with the case. The court file no longer existed, a clerk said, but court records show he was placed on unsupervised probation for two years.

He was arrested in September 2005 for attempted strangulation of his on-again, off-again girlfriend. A jury convicted Hamilton of a reduced charge of misdemeanor domestic battery in June 2006.

As he was awaiting trial, he was arrested for allegedly grabbing another woman by the hands and throwing her to the floor, injuring her. The case was dismissed.

Prior to moving to Latah County, Hamilton was charged with felony aggravated assault in 1992 in Lake Havasu, Ariz., and placed on probation. He was charged a few months later with possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license; both charges were dismissed.

Hamilton was arrested in 1995 by the Tulsa, Okla., city police on a cruelty to animals charge that was reduced to malicious injury. He was sentenced to a year in jail, but the sentence was suspended.

In 1996, he was arrested by the Boise Police Department for marijuana possession and failure to have current insurance. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $251.50 in court costs and fines and complete 16 hours of drug treatment. Hamilton, who was living in Kuna, Idaho, paid his fines in two monthly payments while working for a Meridian pizza parlor.

I thought applicants for an automatic firearms license were heavily screened? This guy should not have made it through the process.

“He never really hit on our radar,” one source said of Hamilton’s involvement with the white supremacy group that was closely monitored during the quarter-century it was headquartered in North Idaho.

The 36-year-old janitor moved to North Idaho from the Boise area in 1998 or 1999, and shortly thereafter became a member of the Aryan Nations, which was based in Hayden.

About that same time, Hamilton was arrested in Latah County for shooting at a building or a car, but the charge was reduced through a plea bargain, incomplete court records show.

Gee, I wonder if the plea bargain was to become a government informant on the Aryan Nations?

[edit on 23/5/2007 by Beelzebubba]

Very interesting find. You may be on to something with the idea of him possibly being a "double-agent" so to speak. Idaho is notorious for militant groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood, as well as others that don't come to mind at the moment. I know that there are a few "large farms" that have been converted to sort of training camps for these such groups.

I wouldn't put it past the Govt. to want to have someone like him on their payroll, they need all the info they can get apparently. Makes me wonder if he buckled under the stress of this possible double-life (maybe his chain was being pulled a little too tight?), anyway it's terrible that something like this happened. That officer was the first police officer to be killed in the history of Moscow. Hopefully we will be able to get a little more info about this guy in the near future and get to the bottom of this.



-Droops