The Aryan Nations Years
Josh Sutter's relationship with the FBI began in 2002-2003 when, ironically, undercover agents sold him a firearm with the serial numbers scratched off in a Philadelphia parking lot.
Sutter was a member of the Christian Identity group, the Church of the Sons of Yahweh, which set up shop in Pennsylvania as the inheritor of Aryan Nations following the death of Richard Butler. He was sentenced to two years in prison on the gun charges.
It was during his incarceration that the young man was recruited to work for the FBI.
Upon release, Sutter returned to the Church of the Sons of Yahweh in a leadership capacity (his old sermons are available here). Soon after, two of his associates in the group, Morris Lynn Gullett and Charles Scott Thornton, were raided by the FBI for "conspiring" to commit bank robberies in Alabama.
After learning the evidence the FBI had collected against him, he named Sutter as the agent provocateur.
In a prison letter dated May 12, 2005 obtained by National Justice, Gullett wrote:
Josh Sutter's relationship with the FBI began in 2002-2003 when, ironically, undercover agents sold him a firearm with the serial numbers scratched off in a Philadelphia parking lot.
Sutter was a member of the Christian Identity group, the Church of the Sons of Yahweh, which set up shop in Pennsylvania as the inheritor of Aryan Nations following the death of Richard Butler. He was sentenced to two years in prison on the gun charges.
It was during his incarceration that the young man was recruited to work for the FBI.
Upon release, Sutter returned to the Church of the Sons of Yahweh in a leadership capacity (his old sermons are available here). Soon after, two of his associates in the group, Morris Lynn Gullett and Charles Scott Thornton, were raided by the FBI for "conspiring" to commit bank robberies in Alabama.
After learning the evidence the FBI had collected against him, he named Sutter as the agent provocateur.
In a prison letter dated May 12, 2005 obtained by National Justice, Gullett wrote: