www.christianpost.com By Ryan Foley
A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to attempting to blow up a Catholic Church during a high-profile annual mass and now faces the prospect of decades behind bars.
In a statement last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Louis Geri of Vineland, New Jersey, had pleaded guilty to a count of Hobbs Act extortion by wrongful use of force, violence, or fear and a count of possession of an unregistered firearm in connection with his attempt to cause an explosion at the annual Red Mass in honor of law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C. Geri’s guilty plea comes five months after he was arrested before he could carry out his plan.
Geri had assembled more than 100 homemade explosive devices and sought to detonate them on the steps of St. Matthew’s Cathedral. He was discovered by Metropolitan Police Department officials in a tent outside the church in the early morning of Oct. 5, when the mass was scheduled to take place. He refused to follow their orders to move and threatened to throw one of his explosive devices into the street, warning them that “several of your people are going to die from one of these.”
Geri also made a list of written demands that he wanted met in order for him to call off his plan to detonate the explosive devices…
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