Regan Darby Prater, a white supremacist from Tennessee, has pleaded guilty to providing Hezbollah with the names of 35,000 individuals he said were affiliated with Israel, the US Department of Justice reported Monday.
Prater, 28, entered a guilty plea to one count of arson and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, it said.
Prater admitted that he had attempted to provide material support to Hezbollah in 2019, including a document purporting to contain personal information about more than 35,000 individuals allegedly affiliated with the government of Israel, the Justice Department said.
“Start the hunt,” he wrote to an individual he believed to be associated with Hezbollah, a terrorist organization backed by Iran.
More recently, Prater admitted to detonating a napalm-based sparkler bomb in the Highlander Center, a school for grassroots leaders and social movements. It caused $1.2 million in damages.
US District Judge Thomas A. Varlan will sentence Prater on September 9
Prater admitted that his attack had been motivated by white-supremacist ideology and in opposition to the center’s association with the civil-rights movement.
Before detonating the bomb, Prater spray-painted the symbol of the Iron Guard, a 1930s-era paramilitary arm of the Romanian Nazi Party, in the center’s parking lot.
US District Judge Thomas A. Varlan is expected to sentence Prater on September 9.
Prater could receive up to 20 years in federal prison, together with related fines, restitution, and a term of supervised release to be served after he is released from custody.