James Patrick Reardon was booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Saturday and is being held on a $250,000 bond. Reardon’s social media accounts were found to be rife with images of guns and anti-Semitic content.
Police in New Middletown, Ohio, (about 13 miles South of Youngstown), executed a search warrant at Reardon’s home Friday night, where they found a cache of weapons and ammunition.
Reporter Graig Graziosi, in a piece about Reardon for the Youngstown Vindicator, wrote that among Reardon’s guns was an MP-40, a German submachine gun used by Nazis during WWII, which Reardon would have likely encountered playing video games. Graziosi hinted that Reardon probably bought the gun because of his allegiance to Nazi ideology.
“Sometime between 2015 and 2017,” Graziosi wrote, “Reardon’s ideology evolved. It began with Trump and local Republicans … and morphed into something darker. By that point, as people who knew Reardon in high school tell me, he’d already earned the nickname ‘Little Hitler.’”
Reardon is not the first young white nationalist to have been arrested in the Mahoning Valley recently. Last week, 18-year-old Justin Olsen, of Boardman, was arrested after advocating shooting “every federal agent on sight,” and citing the Oklahoma City Bombing as a valid and effective example of political action.
Olsen was arrested three days after the mass shooting in Dayton, six months into an investigation by local police. Cleveland.com reported this weekend that at Olsen’s hearing, his mother testified that while Olsen had become increasingly rude to her recently, she never expected him to carry out a violent act. Law enforcement, on the other hand, believed Olsen was planning a terrorist attack.
“To say that [Reardon and Olsen] are just crazy may give people some comfort that they’re simply anomalies,” Graziosi wrote in his Reardon piece, “but they aren’t. They’re products of online radicalization. And there are plenty more out there. The larger danger is the belief that there are just two young people in the Valley who hold views that express radical ideology.”
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This article appears in Aug 14-20, 2019.
You can tell just by looking at Little Hitler’s smug face in his mugshot that this is a person who would benefit greatly from a good ass whooping. Hopefully someone in the Youngstown jail will knock that smug little smirk off of his mongoloid face, like his parents obviously should have done long ago.
Keep the “White Supremacists” in the news, even if you have to embellish, right Scene. I’m guessing those were your orders. Funny how all the sudden a swing state conveniently becomes a haven for White Supremacy when we need a manufactured boogeyman to take down our king of boogeyman.
We see through the charade, and will store it away in the memory banks. Thanks for the laughs.
So because we’re a swing state, that means there are no white supremacists here? You actually believe that? You can’t be that dumb, I’m going to go with willfully ignorant.
The punk was caught dead to rights making posts espousing white supremacist ideals and making threats against the Jewish community center.
No, you’re right though, it must be a conspiracy. I’m sure the orders came down to Scene from Bill and Hilary themselves. It’s all a conspiracy to get rid of your favorite white supremacy endorsing orange schmuck. I’m sure those shooters who basically quoted Drumpf word for word in their dumbass, great replacement fantasy manifestos were all made up too?
Thank you for the laughs, next time you might want to keep your ignorant mouth closed though, we’re laughing at you, not with you.
Kudos to law enforcement for getting this moron off the streets before he could actually hurt someone. If only there were some way to keep these sick bastards from getting their hands on weapons of war in the first place, that way you right wing tards won’t have to make dumb excuses for their behavior after the fact.