Governors Mansion Fire and The RNC Plot
Newsroom
9/9/2008

Two members of an Austin based anarchist group called "The Austin Affinity Group" are locked up accused in a plot to use molotov cocktails to disrupt the Republican Convention. Now investigators are trying to determine if the pair are connected to the fire that destroyed the Governors Mansion.

News Radio 590-KLBJ'Security Analyst, Fred Burton from Stratfor.com says the "Austin Affinity" may have worked with some other groups.

Today a lawyer for one the suspects asked a judge to release his client pending trial.

Police say David Guy McKay, 22, and Bradley Neil Crowder, 23, will be held in jail without bail. U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel in Minneapolis has scheduled a preliminary hearing and detention hearing today.


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