http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003610371_websentence10m.htmlSentencing for a Seattle man who was once imprisoned in a plot to blow up Martin Luther King Jr. was delayed this morning.
The attorney for Keith Gilbert, convicted of several federal weapons charges, requested the delay because he hadn't had a chance to review the government's sentencing memorandum, which had been filed Thursday. U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman rescheduled the sentencing for April 6.
Gilbert, who most recently worked as a property manager for two Roosevelt neighborhood landlords, was convicted late last year of selling illegal weapons to an informant. Prosecutors also contended that Gilbert illegally possessed 74 weapons, including a weapon that was stolen from the military and another with a missing serial number, and that Gilbert and a co-defendant manufactured machine guns.
In addition, prosecutors said, Gilbert had stockpiled more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
"Gilbert has a history of violence — including violence involving firearms and explosives — and extremism that suggests that Gilbert's possession of firearms and his distribution of firearms to other presumably like-minded individuals is of gravest concern," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. snip
He was at one point an admitted member of the Minutemen and he later founded the Socialist Nationalist Aryan People's Party, which considered Adolf Hitler a prophet and tried to recruit members from Butler's organization.
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