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>Three more suspected neo-Nazis connected to a white nationalist group that reportedly planned to have members at a gun rights rally in Virginia have been arrested, media reports say.
>Three Georgia men were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and participating in a criminal street gang as part of the hate group, The Base, the Associated Press and Rome News-Tribune reported.
According to the News-Tribune, the three men were arrested a day before three other suspected members of The Base were arrested in Maryland on firearms and alien-harboring charges.
>It was not immediately clear if the Georgia men planned to attend the Virginia rally. Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that the men in Maryland planned to attend, and authorities moved on them in fears they might incite violence.
>The string of arrests come as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of Monday's gun rights rally and banned all weapons, including firearms, in the area around the state Capitol in Richmond.
>A judge upheld Northam's ban Thursday, but rally organizers are seeking an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. It was not clear when the court would hear the appeal.
>Groups identified as extremist organizations urged members to flock to Richmond on Monday, using fiery language of "tyrants" trying to seize arms and promising civil war.
>The Base, the group of which the six men arrested this week allegedly are members, has been identified as a hate group committed to creating a white ethno-state. Police in Georgia say the group, founded around July 2018, seeks to "accelerate the downfall of the United States government, incite a race war and establish a white ethno-state."
>One of the men, Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, is a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist who was dismissed over alleged ties to white supremacists.
>The Base, the group that the six men arrested this week allegedly have connections to, has been identified as a hate group committed to creating a white ethno-state.
>According to an arrest affidavit, the Georgia men were arrested in connection with an undercover FBI operation during which an agent was accepted into the group and gained access to its encrypted online messaging applications.
>The three men allegedly planned to murder a couple they believed to members of Antifa, the anti-fascist group. According to an arrest affidavit, Lane spearheaded the plot to kill the couple with the help of Kaderli and Helterbrand, however, the operation was delayed, in part because Helterbrand said he had a bad back.
>On at least two occasions, the men along with the undercover agent drove to the couple's house to scope it out, the affidavit says. They also discussed burning the house down after the hit, the affidavit says.
