{"id":1953,"date":"2012-10-17T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/kent-mcclellan-pleads-guilty-in-american-front-case-gets-probation\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:37:15","slug":"kent-mcclellan-pleads-guilty-in-american-front-case-gets-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/17\/kent-mcclellan-pleads-guilty-in-american-front-case-gets-probation\/","title":{"rendered":"KENT McCLELLAN PLEADS GUILTY IN AMERICAN FRONT CASE, GETS PROBATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" alt=\"KENT\" src=\"http:\/\/media.trb.com\/media\/photo\/2012-10\/72930159.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>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&#8217;t be hearing much from Florida Nazis, but we sure hope Kent isn&#8217;t going to start hitting us up with his BS emails again.<\/h3>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Orlando Sentinel<\/h2>\n<p>KISSIMMEE \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Only one other defendant has pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The case drew national attention earlier this year after local authorities and the <a id=\"ORGOV000008\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"FBI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/crimes\/fbi-ORGOV000008.topic\">FBI<\/a> Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested neo-<a id=\"ORCIG00000044\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"Nazi Party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/politics\/parties-movements\/nazi-party-ORCIG00000044.topic\">Nazis<\/a> and white supremacists in Florida and California on weapon and paramilitary training charges.<\/p>\n<p>The paramilitary training involved combat practice with AK-47&#8217;s, knives and other weapons on property owned by American Front leader Marcus Faella near Holopaw in eastern Osceola County, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Court records do not indicate if McLellan, 22, will testify at the upcoming trials of Faella and the other remaining defendants.<\/p>\n<p>McLellan of <a id=\"PLGEO100100411080000\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"St. Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/osceola-county\/st.-cloud-PLGEO100100411080000.topic\">St. Cloud<\/a> had a turbulent relationship with the group.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a id=\"PLGEO100100411080000\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"St. Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/osceola-county\/st.-cloud-PLGEO100100411080000.topic\">St. Cloud<\/a> bar between McLellan and an American Front member but both declined comment other than to say, &#8220;Things were settled,&#8221; according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and the symbol of the Aryan Nations, another white supremacist group, on his chest and arms, according to the state Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>McLellan could not be reached for comment today. 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