A total of 31 Patriot Front members, including one identified as its founder, were arrested in 2022 after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army.”

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      And in the other case, two were acquited, two received a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury, and two pleas guilty to conspiracy.

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        And the two who received a mistrial were retried, found guilty, and both sentenced to over 15 years

        e; and that was just the federal charges, there was a state level case that sent a bunch more to prison for a while too

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          Thank you for elaborating. Definitely seems like the above poster was pretty off base.