Supremacist Captured After Race War Call

OZARK, Mo. â€”  A fugitive white supremacist who allegedly had threatened a war against blacks, Jews and the federal government was captured along with three of his followers today by agents who fired tear gas into a mobile home, authorities said.

Glenn Miller, former leader of the White Patriot Party, was captured with three other men, identified as Tony Wydra, Robert (Jack) Jackson and Douglas Sheets, FBI agent Bob Davenport and U.S. Marshal Lee Koury said.

They were arrested at about 7 a.m. by federal marshals who moved in on the mobile home in Ozark, 15 miles south of Springfield, after keeping the trailer under surveillance all night, Davenport and Koury said.

Cleared the Area

Forty federal agents and additional state and local officers surrounded the home, evacuated neighbors in surrounding trailers and then called for the four to leave the trailer. Officers fired tear gas when they did not respond.

Davenport and Koury said the men walked out of the trailer about a minute later and offered no resistance. Koury said Miller’s alleged threats and declaration of war against the government prompted the strong show of force by federal agents.

Miller, 46, also a former leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, was convicted in North Carolina last year of operating a paramilitary training camp and was freed on bond pending appeal. He was charged in a fugitive warrant last week with violating his bond conditions.

Missed Court Appearance

Both Jackson and Sheets were wanted for failure to appear for trial in Elizabeth City, N.C., as defendants in a case involving conspiracy to purchase stolen military weapons. Wydra is expected to be charged with conspiracy, an FBI spokesman said.

Officials said Miller declared war on the government in the name of The Order, a paramilitary organization that staged crimes in the West in 1983 and 1984 aimed at establishing an Aryan homeland.

Miller was not among 15 white supremacists indicted last week on charges of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government through assassinations of public officials or on charges of civil rights violations in the slaying of a Denver radio personality.