KENT McCLELLAN PLEADS GUILTY IN AMERICAN FRONT CASE, GETS PROBATION

Kent McLellan of American Front will see no jail time in the case that netted 13 other members of his crew in Florida. We suspect we won’t be hearing much from Florida Nazis, but we sure hope Kent isn’t going to start hitting us up with his BS emails again.

Orlando Sentinel

KISSIMMEE – An Osceola man with Nazi tattoos pleaded guilty this week to taking part in paramilitary training for he believed was an impending race war, records show.

Kent McLellan entered his plea Tuesday and received four years of probation without prison time in the domestic terrorism case against 14 members of the American Front movement, records show.

Only one other defendant has pleaded guilty.

The case drew national attention earlier this year after local authorities and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Florida and California on weapon and paramilitary training charges.

The paramilitary training involved combat practice with AK-47’s, knives and other weapons on property owned by American Front leader Marcus Faella near Holopaw in eastern Osceola County, according to court records.

Court records do not indicate if McLellan, 22, will testify at the upcoming trials of Faella and the other remaining defendants.

McLellan of St. Cloud had a turbulent relationship with the group.

Faella is accused of ordering followers to beat up McLellan for posting negative comments on Facebook about the American Front. On Jan. 17, police responded to a fight outside a St. Cloud bar between McLellan and an American Front member but both declined comment other than to say, “Things were settled,” according to police reports.

The next day, an informant told a JTTF agent that Faella promoted probationary recruit Dustin Perry to full member for beating McLellan, according to court records.

An ex-convict, McLellan served a year in prison for criminal mischief involving a church and a Mexican restaurant in north Florida. When he arrived in prison two years ago, he had tattoos of swastikas, “Nazi” and the symbol of the Aryan Nations, another white supremacist group, on his chest and arms, according to the state Department of Corrections.

McLellan could not be reached for comment today. Jury trials in the case are scheduled to begin Nov. 26.