21 April 2022, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Heilbronn: A bayonet with an embedded swastika, which was seized during a police operation in Boxberg-Bobstadt, lies as evidence on a table at Heilbronn police headquarters. During an apartment search of a suspected Reichsbürger on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, there was an exchange of fire between the man and the police in Boxberg-Bobstadt - There was a police press conference today with details of the operation. Photo: Christoph Schmidt/dpa (Photo by Christoph Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)
  • Joshua L. Litchfield, 33, of Gloversville, N.Y., was charged with second-degree assault and aggravated harassment as a hate crime–both felonies, along with two misdemeanors.
  • Litchfield is accused of sending multiple text messages to a man that included “hatred specifically directed toward (the victim’s) racial ethnicity … followed by a text message stating he is of the Aryan brotherhood and is a Neo-Nazi and will kill (the victim).”
  • Litchfield was arraigned and held on $15,000 bail. 
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