Background: screengrab of the home where Justin Mohn is believed to have decapitated his father before displaying his head in a YouTube video. Inset: Justin Mohn (images via YouTube screengrabs/WPVI).
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania added terrorism charges to the man accused of decapitating his father and showing the severed head in a YouTube video while spouting right-wing conspiracy theories and encouraging violence against federal officials, a press release said.
Justin Mohn, 32, already faces first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse charges. On Thursday, prosecutors added three counts of terrorism, two additional counts of possession of an instrument of crime, and one count each of robbery, firearms not to be carried without a license, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, criminal use of a communication facility, terroristic threats, and defiant trespassing.
Mohn is accused of shooting his father, 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn, and then chopping his head off at their home in Middleton Township. On Jan. 30, Justin Mohn recorded a 14-minute, 34-second video titled “Mohn’s Militia — Call to Arms for American Patriots,” according to a probable cause arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. As he allegedly held his father’s head in a plastic bag for the camera, he said, “Mike Mohn is in hell for being a traitor to his country.” Mike Mohn was a retired federal employee.
Justin Mohn claimed he was the head of the Commander of America’s Network of Militias, also known as Mohn’s Militia. He then “ordered all Militia and patriots across the United States to kill all federal employees, all FBI/IRS and other federal law enforcement officers.” Mohn also called for federal agents, U.S. Marshals and Border Patrol agents to be “captured, tortured for information, and publicly executed.”
Among those he singled out was giving the address of U.S. District Court Judge Mark Kearney, the affidavit said. He said he wouldn’t stop until the people he deemed as traitors were “identified and completely wiped out,” according to the affidavit.
After the killing, cops say Mohn stole his father’s 2009 Toyota Corolla. He drove to Fort Indian Town Gap, an Army National Guard base, where he climbed a barbed wire fence to enter the property, police said. Base security caught Mohn and found a 9 mm gun — the same caliber used to kill his father — with one round missing and a USB device, the affidavit said.
A search of the flash drive allegedly revealed a folder that said f—– up s—,” which included several pictures of federal buildings and bomb-making instructions.
The Middle Township Police Department initially responded to the home around 7 p.m. on Jan. 30. They found a headless Michael Mohn in the downstairs bathroom. There was a machete in the bathtub. Michael Mohn’s head was in a cooking pot in a bedroom. They also recovered the blood-covered plastic gloves that Justin Mohn apparently was wearing in the video.
Justin Mohn is at the Bucks County Correctional Facility without bail.
