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Man arrested for trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb in Oklahoma
- jbg_ 9y agoThe FBI seems to have gone further than usual (in my limited understanding of what is usual) here with "assisting" the man to incriminate himself. To me (not a lawyer) it sounds a little like entrapment. ... an undercover FBI agent posed as a person who could assist him. According to the complaint, Varnell took a series of actions to advance his plot. He identified BancFirst as the target, prepared a statement to be posted on social media after the explosion, helped assemble the device, helped load it into what he believed was a stolen van, drove the van by himself from El Reno to BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City, and dialed a number on a cellular telephone that he believed would trigger the explosion. Varnell is charged with attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce.