Authorities found multiple IEDs, an IED striker plate, an electronic IED trigger, other IED components, and more at Christopher Arthur's home after his arrest.
Christopher Arthur, 38, of Mount Olive, North Carolina, was presented before a magistrate judge Monday, the DOJ said. He was arrested on January 22, 2022.in May 2020, when authorities discovered multiple tactical instructional manuals authored by him in the residence of an individual who had been killed May 27, 2020, during a shootout with officers in New York. according to the DOJ.
If convicted of his charges, Christopher Arthur could be sentenced up to 20 years in prison and faced with a fine of $250,000, the Department of Justice said. In this photo, an FBI-created replica of IED components recovered in Afghanistan in 2005 are on display at the"Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden" exhibition at the National 9/11 Memorial Museum on November 7, 2019, in New York City.
After Arthur was arrested, a search was conducted on his home, where authorities found multiple IEDs, an IED striker plate, an electronic IED trigger, other IED components, a pistol suppressor, bulk gunpowder, and mixed Tannerite explosives, according to the DOJ.