The Red Legs sought border war-inspired bloodshed, officials say. Let’s not repeat that history.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: June 21, 2026

Words: 2,462

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Last month 25-year-old Lake Ethan Roberts stood at the edge of a rock quarry near Richmond, Missouri, and lit the fuse of a crude explosive device of his own design, according to federal authorities.

Then he tossed it in the quarry.

The device was made from a plastic single-serving “shooter” bottle filled with black powder, a fuse threaded through a hole in the aluminum cap, and had steel BBs wrapped around it with duct tape, …

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