FBI agents. Photo: Wiki Commons.

A California neo-Nazi who allegedly manufactured ghost guns and conspired to distribute methamphetamine faces over 30 years in prison after being arrested by the FBI on Thursday.

“As alleged this convicted felon affiliated with a violent white supremacist group, who espouses horrific acts of violence against Jews, appears to be manufacturing firearms,” US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement on Friday. “The potential danger to the community cannot be overstated. We will continue to investigate this matter to ensure that this defendant is held accountable for his crimes and to keep our community safe from acts of violence motivated by racist and hateful ideology.”

According to a press release issued by the Department of Justice, the FBI took 34-year-old Ryan Scott Bradford, a convicted burglar, into custody on Thursday following a n investigation that yielded copious evidence of his ghost gun manufacturing and efforts to sell methamphetamine to vulnerable addicts. Bradford’s history on the internet was also troublesome, with investigators finding that he boasted an association with a California white-supremacist-prison gang known as the “San Fernando Valley Peckerwoods.”

On Amazon, Bradford went by the username “Peck Erwood” and used a picture of the woodpecker bird as an avatar, a common practice among white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The “Peckerwoods,” DOJ noted, are a highly dangerous crime syndicate that has committed racial violence as well as drug and weapons trafficking and fraud.

On social media, Bradford regularly authored on Telegram posts clamoring for a genocide of the Jewish people and others that contained instructions for operating hand grenades, waging biological warfare, and launching an “Aryan Revolution.” Additionally, he solicited Telegram users hire him out for producing ghost-guns and parts for firearms, which he manufactured using a 3-D printer.

During a search of Bradford’s home on Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)  investigators found over 100 rounds of ammunition, 3-D printers, Nazi propaganda, tools for making semi-automatic weapons firearms fully-automatic, and an improvised explosive device (IED), a kind of homemade bomb that has been used in numerous terrorist attacks throughout the world.

“The defendant is a self-described antisemite associated with a white supremacist group which espouses the hatred of Jews and other minorities, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office Donald Alway said. “Hateful rhetoric that crosses the line into violence will get the attention of law enforcement and those who engage in such extremism will be held accountable should they act upon their violent rhetoric.”

As The Algemeiner has previously reported, federal law enforcement authorities have opened and resolved several cases involving neo-Nazis and white-supremacists in recent months.

On Friday, the Justice Department announced that a drug-dealing neo-Nazi from Anchorage, Alaska, will serve 18 months in prison for being convicted of property crimes motivated by antisemitism and white supremacy. Earlier this month, a New Jersey teenager pleaded guilty to communicating a threat to attack synagogues, and in June, a federal grand jury indicted 19-year-old Seann Pietila from Pickford, Michigan for allegedly threatening to commit a mass shooting and live stream it on social media.

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