HOUSTON — If you saw Robert Talbot Jr. on the street, you probably wouldn’t give him a second look.
But some of the people who shared the house where he once rented a room will tell you there’s plenty to notice.
“I knew he was out in left field, real bad,” said Terry Denny, who often talked with Talbot. “And I figured he might come to reality if we could talk to him, deal with him, reason with him. But then I got afraid of him. I got afraid to go to sleep in this place with him being here.”
If a criminal complaint filed in federal court is true, his housemates’ fears seem justified. Talbot allegedly plotted to launch a violent anti-government campaign bankrolled by a series of deadly robberies, beginning with a bloody heist slated for Thursday.
Undercover FBI agents say they spent eight months investigating Talbot, meeting with him on several occasions to hear his elaborate plans to rob banks, kill law enforcement officers and blow up government buildings. Talbot believed the agents were on his side, court documents say, so he told them to acquire hand grenades and plastic explosives.
Prosecutors allege Talbot was the man behind a Facebook page for the “American Insurgent Movement” (AIM) that tried to recruit anti-government militants for “who want to restore America Pre-Constitutionally and look forward to stopping the Regime with action by bloodshed.”
The Facebook page displays months of anti-government postings, many of them stridently opposing gun control. Some of them directly encourage violence against bankers, Muslims and political leaders, including a post saying presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett should be tortured.
“Obamacare will cause you to lose your license and get warrent’s (sic) on you,” said one posting.
“It’s going to look terrific watching the bullets go through their brain while they beg for there (sic) lives,” said another message about elected officials advocating gun control.
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