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The indictment is here. Both defendants are charged with conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon. Brown is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, and making a terroristic threat as a hate crime.
According to the indictment, Brown tweeted threats including: “Big moves being made on Friday”; “Brutally, murder people with hatchets and whatnot. How it feels to KILL PEOPLE.”; “Gonna ask a Priest if I should become a husband or shoot up a synagogue and die.”; and “This time I’m really gonna do it.”
After the two were arrested, Brown allegedly told the police that he operated a white supremacist Twitter group; that he had a “sick personality”; and “It took me three years to finally buy the gun. Matt [Mahrer] is one of my followers. I have Nazi paraphernalia in my house. I think it’s really cool.”
Brown allegedly paid Mahrer $650 to get a gun in Pennsylvania. When the men were arrested at Penn Station on November 18, 2022, the MTA police found a knife, swastika armband and ski mask in Brown's backpack. Police found a backpack with a gun, extended magazine and 19 rounds of ammunition at Mahrer's apartment.
Recently, a third man, Jamil Hakime, 58, who sold the illegal gun to Brown and Mahrer, pleaded guilty to a federal charge, and will be sentenced in July. Hakime worked for New York City’s children services as a juvenile counselor, and received degrees from Touro College and Yeshiva University.
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