Back in March we made reference to the arrest of anti-police brutality activist Laro Nicol on explosives charges in Tempe, AZ. We just received this update:

[Laro Nicol] is an activist being targeted by the BATF. He spoke at the College of Law yesterday and is a very committed and passionate person. He claims that he is the victim of a paid informant who told the BATF that Laro was a drug addict. Then the BATF raided his home and declared that the guns he possessed were illegal firearms and arrested him as a "prohibited possessor" due to his alleged "drug addiction".

Laro is extremely clean cut and eloquent. His job at the time was as an Air Traffic Controller, meaning that he was subjected to random drug testing for the previous 8 years (and he never had any problems passing). He is going to arraignment today for additional charges. The BATF is claiming that one of his guns is an 'automatic weapon'. Laro says that
this is not true.

We believe that Laro is being targeted due to several reasons: