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Dario Sanchez, 32, shared in interviews with KERA News his perspective on the charges he's facing related to a shooting that occurred outside the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4, 2025. Sanchez was not at the shooting but has been arrested three times in connection.

Related story about another Prairieland defendant: https://www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare-prairieland-19-trial-ice-detention/

The 19th and final defendant, Lucy Fowlkes, was arrested in January and charged with two counts of hindering prosecution of terrorism. She is alleged to have helped delete messages and remove people from group chats. Prosecutors allege that the deleted messages contained evidence of planning the incident and planning to help Song evade arrest and “by extension, [to] hinder prosecution of terrorism.”

Here is the actual criminal complaint for Lucy Fowlkes: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/980161192-Lucy-Fowlkes-Criminal-Complaint.pdf

Her messages giving instructions on how to delete messages are used as evidence of her charges.

Here is a relevant excerpt from the arrest warrant affidavit for another Prairieland defendant Janette Goering, written by Johnson County detective William J. Reilly:

  1. Kent and Sharp indicated the arrangement to meet at the Murphy’s USA was conducted via signal chats. Signal is an end-to-end encrypted chat commonly used with intent to mitigate digital footprint and have conversations that have the ability to be deleted and unrecoverable. I know based on my training and experience the individuals who utilize end-to-end encrypted chats to be engaged in criminal activity, whether it be a conspiracy to commit a criminal offense or sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Here is the actual arrest warrant affidavit for Janette Goering (the quote is from page 7, paragraph 10 of the PDF): https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Goering/2025-10-21/-/_Search/_Warrant/Affidavit//_J./_Goering/_OCR.pdf

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[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The detective says people using end to end encryption are either terrorists or pedos. The US military uses such encryption. So do journalists and privacy advocates.

Surprisingly, Jeffrey Epstein, the most infamous pedophile of our time did not use such encryption technology. That’s why we have all his emails.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

jMail is a beautiful thing

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

Guy got in trouble because of the dumbest possible telephone game (among other things)

For example, although court documents claim Sanchez searched, “is the 900 mAh battery from a (Game Boy) capable of being used in a trigger device," Sellers said that was actually a search from [his bail] supervisor, who was cross-referencing real searches from Sanchez to see if they could be used to make explosives.

[Bail supervisor] Coyle then took a screenshot of his own search history and sent it to the district attorney, leading to a violation of Sanchez’s probation and his rearrest, Sellers said.