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Morgan Jones once built a tank out of scrap metal and drove it to church.

During annual potluck parties at his backwoods Clarion County home, he often wowed guests with his homemade flamethrower.

And sometimes, just for fun, he’d entertain friends by shooting an electrical charge through his body to light a bulb.

His wife, Donna, says he’s a little eccentric.

“I never thought it was illegal to be eccentric,” she said. “He’s a good man. He’s not a terrorist or a domestic threat.”

Agents from the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force thought otherwise when they arrested Jones last month as he left Sunday Mass in the sleepy hamlet of Lucinda.

Jones, 64, was charged with selling a Romanian AK-47 assault rifle to an undercover agent posing as an Ohio resident.

Later, when agents headed down a bumpy, macadam road to Jones’ modular home, they found an array of homemade weapons, a cannon, drums of explosive chemicals and a depleted uranium shell. The military often uses uranium shells because they penetrate tank armor.

Officials allege Jones is a major player in a militia movement whose shadowy members have a “propensity toward violence” against the government, elected officials, judges and law enforcement.

“Propensity toward violence?! That’s our job!!” “Militia? That’s something the government is supposed to handle subject citizen! Ignore the ‘bad eggs’ tazing people, the check points, the NAU, the creeping police state. We will protect you.”

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The Arapahoe County sheriff has opened an internal investigation into the actions of an off-duty deputy who shot and killed a man in a traffic altercation.

The probe of Deputy Daniel Montana Jr. in the Nov. 2 shooting was launched Monday — the same day it was announced a Jefferson County grand jury did not indict the deputy.

Lakewood police said Montana, 49, of Golden, shot Rossiter during a roadside confrontation at West Sixth Avenue and Indiana Street.

The altercation involving Rossiter and Michael Hunter, the driver of the pickup in which Rossiter was riding, may have begun with a cigarette butt tossed from the truck that landed on Montana’s vehicle.

A quick search has not turned up a lot of info on this but it seems that a fight started after the off-duty cop approached the victim’s truck on an off-ramp. Even if the cop was acting in a truly honest self defensive situation, which I doubt given he appears to have instigated the encounter, there should still be a case. Murder is not an appropriate response to a typical physical altercation. In the least a manslaughter or wrongful death civil case. If the grand jury declined to indict the deputy I doubt the department will do anything about it. I’d like to see their reasoning.