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Neo-Nazi Hal Turner Arrested Again


Hal TurnerHal Turner, a neo-Nazi talk radio host known for his threats against public figures, is scheduled to appear in federal court this afternoon on charges of threatening to assault and murder three federal judges.


The arrest comes three weeks after he was taken into custody in New Jersey on charges that he incited violence against two Connecticut legislators. He had been freed on $25,000 bond and wasn’t scheduled to return to court until July.


But the FBI — an agency for which he once may have worked as a paid informant — arrested Turner on Wednesday after going to his home in North Bergen, N.J., to execute a search warrant. The charges stem from Internet postings earlier this month in which he blasted a June 2 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago that essentially upheld local handgun bans.


“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed,” Turner allegedly wrote on June 2.