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Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at Tennessee center that trained civil rights icons
Prater also admitted trying to supply Hezbollah with personal data tied to people linked to Israel, and prosecutors said the sentence could reach 20 years.
- Regan Prater pleaded guilty on Monday to setting a fire that destroyed an office at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, and admitted to attempting to aid Hezbollah by providing personally identifiable information on individuals linked to Israel.
- The historic Highlander site trained Civil Rights Movement figures including Rosa Parks and John Lewis, but decades of irreplaceable documents were lost in the blaze that occurred in East Tennessee in 2019.
- An affidavit linked Prater to the crime through group chats and a spray-painted "triple cross" found near the scene; authorities identified a screen name, "Rooster," who described using Napalm to set the fire.
- Prater faces a maximum of 20 years in prison under the plea agreement, with sentencing scheduled for Sept. 9 in Knoxville, having been previously sentenced to five years for a separate fire in East Tennessee.
- Prater's Hezbollah charge involved efforts to provide the Lebanese group with information on individuals purportedly affiliated with the government of Israel, as federal officials filed the criminal information, replacing an earlier indictment.
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