Overview
- Lucas Alexander Temple, 20, was federally indicted on charges of possessing an unregistered firearm, possessing a firearm with a removed serial number, and receiving child sexual abuse material.
- Federal agents searched his Sarasota home on November 20 and recovered a sawed-off shotgun, multiple firearms, ammunition, pipe bombs, a pressure cooker, and literature on making explosives.
- Prosecutors say a written plan included instructions to wear body cameras for a livestream, write a manifesto, notify friends, and place motion-activated bombs in doorways for police.
- Investigators reported Nazi and mass‑shooting propaganda in the home, including Columbine materials and a flag bearing the Atomwaffen Division symbol.
- Authorities say Temple communicated online with ideologically aligned individuals about conducting violence and provided instructions for manufacturing explosives.