Piatek Has A History Of Aiming For Cops

Militia man drove headfirst into a cop car

Thomas Piatek, the Indiana man accused of taking part in a violent militia’s plot to kill police officers, has a history of aiming for cops.

On May 14, 1990 Piatek, a truck driver, was arrested for taking his semi trailer across the raised median in the 18100 block of Halsted Street in Homewood and driving head-on into a state trooper, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The trooper swerved to avoid the wrong-way truck, then pulled a u-turn and went in for the arrest.

Piatek pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to one year of supervision.

Now Piatek and eight Hutaree co-defendants are charged in Detroit federal court with conspiring seditiously and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.

Federal officials seized nearly four dozen high-powered guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the Hammond, Ind., home of the man.

Magistrate Judge Paul Cherry denied bond for 46-year-old Piatek during a three-hour hearing on last week and ordered him to remain in the custody of U.S. Marshals

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Hammond Militia Man Drove Into Police Car's Path

Records show that Thomas Piatek, 46, drove his semi-truck into the path of an oncoming police car in Homewood in 1990.

Police say Piatek claimed to be angry because the patrol car had its high beams on.

The patrol car wasn't hit.

Piatek is one of nine militia members accused in a plot to overthrow the U.S. government...

Militia Suspect Once Tried To Hit Police Car

Police records show Piatek once steered his semi deliberately into path of police car

HOMEWOOD, Ill. - New details are emerging about Thomas Piatek, the Whiting, Indiana man who is accused in a militia plot to kill police officers.

Piatek is a truck driver. A new check of his police record shows, he once steered his semi deliberately into the path of a police car. It happened in Homewood in 1990.

The police officer swerved to miss the truck; then he turned around, chased Piatek down and arrested him.

As Piatek was booked, he told the officer, "I thought you were one of those (expletives) with their bright lights on all the time."

Militia Case Suspect Once Drove Semi In Police Car's Path

Hammond man now accused of plotting to kill cops with bombs

A northwest Indiana man charged last month with plotting with other militia members to murder police officers drove a semi into the path of a south suburban police car two decades ago.

Thomas Piatek, 46, of Hammond, was southbound when he "abruptly veered" over a raised median in the 18100 block of Halsted Street in Homewood, flashed on his high beams and drove directly into the path of a northbound marked police car on May 14, 1990, a police report shows.

"I thought you were one of those (expletives) with the bright lights on all the time," Piatek allegedly told the Homewood officer, who swerved to avoid the semi, then made a U-turn and arrested him. The squad car's high beams were on at the time...

As Predicted, FBI Agent At The Center Of Alleged Hutaree Conspiracy

On Monday we asked you to count the hours before links to the feds emerged on this one – turns out it was 48.

The FBI had an informant inside the Hutaree group and he participated in the alleged conspiracy to kill law enforcement officers, according to The Wall Street Journal today.

In sworn testimony, Thomas William Piatek is described as a Cooperating Witness and an undercover FBI agent.

Thomas William Piatek is pictured at the bottom right. It is interesting to note that, unlike the other suspects, he appears not to be wearing a jail uniform.

“A spokesperson at the FBI’s Detroit office declined to comment on the undercover agent and any role such an agent may have had in the investigation. A spokesman at the Justice Department in Washington also declined to discuss specifics of the investigation,” the Journal reports.

It is not surprising that the FBI had penetrated the Hutaree group and an agent was apparently at the center of the alleged conspiracy. In fact, it is part of a well established pattern.

On March 20, Infowars.com reported on allegations that a federal agent acted as a provocateur in the New York synagogue bombing conspiracy case. Defense attorneys in the case argued in court that the plot was hatched and directed by a federal informant...

Hammond Suspect Mum About Militia In Court

HAMMOND | Hammond truck driver Thomas W. Piatek told a judge Monday he doesn't understand why he was charged alongside eight other alleged members of a Michigan-based extremist Christian militia accused of plotting to kill police officers and make war with the U.S. government.

"What they're alleging and what I've done are two different things," Piatek said in Hammond federal court.

Piatek, 46, of Hammond's Robertsdale neighborhood, was arrested Sunday in Clarendon Hills, Ill., in a multistate FBI-led operation targeting the Hutaree, a Detroit-area militant group whose members have armed themselves and trained for a prophesied battle with the Antichrist. Piatek, who attended Clark High School in Hammond, remains in Hammond City Jail pending a hearing Wednesday to determine whether he will be transferred to Michigan to face the charges...

Militia Man Claims Mistaken Identity

Feds removed evidence from his home Monday

At least one of the men arrested in a weekend raid says Feds got the wrong guy.

Thomas Piatek, 46, a truck driver from Whiting, Indiana, is one of nine alleged domestic terrorists from the group Hutaree who were indicted on charges of attempting to kill police officers with a weapon of mass destruction, among others.

Hutaree claims to be a group of Christian warriors preparing to battle the Antichrist at the end of day.

"We believe that one day, as prophecy says, there will be an Anti-Christ. . . . Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment," the groups web site reads.

But Piatek, who was arrested Saturday at an apartment complex in Clarendon Hills, says there must be some sort of mistake.

"I'm not that guy," he said to a judge during a pretrial hearing in Hammond, Indiana. "What they're alleging and what I've done are two different things," Piatek said in Hammond federal court according to the Northwest Indiana Times.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Cherry ordered a special hearing to figure it out...

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