25-year-old Keith Michael Novak, who served as an active-duty soldier and intelligence analyst with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg for three years, faces federal fraud charges in connection with the theft of names, Social Security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit, The Associated Press reported.
Novak, who reportedly threatened to use violence if authorities came to arrest him as he "told an undercover FBI employee that he would barricade himself in his apartment and had '5,000 rounds, a thousand of it is in magazines, ready to go," according to an affidavit," The AP also reported.
The affidavit alleged Novak stole six flak vests from the 82nd Airborne Division when unit members left them unattended. Novak had also previously given 10 flak jackets to members of his militia, the affidavit said. Novak also told the man who saw the vests in a storage unit that he had camouflage netting and riot gear and intended to start burying caches of equipment," according to The AP.
Novak, who had served at Fort Bragg for 3 years and one year deployment in Iraq in 2010, reportedly "went to a training camp in Utah and met two undercover FBI employees who posed as member of a Utah-based militia... Novak told undercover employees that he took classified materials from Fort Bragg and would share the materials with them, the document said," as reported by the AP.
"The undercover employees said they knew someone who could make fake IDs, which Novak said he needed for his militia. Novak sent the information for 44 individuals to an undercover FBI employee on Nov. 4, and on Nov. 25, he accepted $2,000 and said he had additional pages to sell, according to the affidavit," The AP also reported.
"I've my AK in my bed. If I hear that door kick, it's going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm just going to start putting them through the (expletive) wall," Novak told an undercover FBI employee in July, according to the affidavit.
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