An FBI lab released details regarding a hand grenade supposed to be owned by a suspected Oath Keeper turned out it did not have DNA belonging to the defendant.
Defense lawyers in the Oath Keepers treasonous conspiracy trial claimed that two hand grenades had allegedly been brought to the Washington, D.C., area. Defense attorneys have resubmitted their demand to bar federal prosecutors from bringing up the topic during the treason trial.
Oath Keepers' Connection to the Jan 6 Incident
One of the main charges is against Jeremy Brown, whose DNA was not proven to be his and proven by the DNA test, reported The Epoch Times.
Attorneys for the defendants Kenneth Harrelson and Kelly Meggs sent a motion to the U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta requesting that he reconsider his ruling from September 6 that allowed for the Department of Justice's grenades to be mentioned in the ongoing trial of four Oath Keepers and one associate, as reflected in Document 363 of U.S. District Court.
The new motion mentions the latest evidence of Brown's having the two grenades, which had no DNA match, or his dog in the RV he rode on during the January 6 rally.
The reconsideration request was submitted after defense lawyers realized how an FBI evidence lab ascertained that the Genetic material discovered on the explosives did not have any connection to Brown.
He hasn't been accused in the Oath Keeper's seditious-conspiracy case; however, he has been accused in two other federal criminal investigations through 2021 and 2022.
These explosive devices were allegedly seen when the FBI searched his Florida property last September 30, 2021. He used the same conveyance to attend the rallies and protests on January 6.
Grenades Ruled Admissible
On July 29, Juli Haller and Stanley Woodward, Meggs' defense attorneys, forwarded a motion to obstruct any reference to the grenades.
According to their motion, the grenades were discovered nine months after the alleged seditious conspiracy ended, and prosecutors could not prove whether Brown's RV contained the explosives on January 6.
On September 6, Mehta released an omnibus order rejecting Haller and Woodward's July opposition, presiding that evidence about grenades was legally valid.
Haller, Woodward, and Harrelson's attorney, Brad Geyer, filed DNA findings with the October 2 motion, demonstrating the FBI did not discover Brown's DNA on the explosive device.
The FBI lab observed a DNA mixture on the pin of one explosive. The other grenade seemed to have male DNA on it. Based on a document from the FBI Laboratory in Huntsville, Ala., Brown didn't match any of the genetic material on the explosives.
The suspect asserted that the raid on his property and federal prosecutions in September 2021 had been retribution for his unwillingness to serve as an FBI spy and conduct surveillance on the group.
Based on a detailed letter Brown addressed to The Epoch Times on December 31, 2021, representatives from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force did meet with him at a Florida restaurant in December 2020.
Jeremy Brown will go on trial on December 5, set in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. On April 12, 2022, he was charged with possessing firearms, an explosive device, and classified material on multiple counts.
An FBI lab found no DNA traces on a hand grenade that was supposed to prove the suspected Oath Keeper owned it, but it was not.
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