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FORT WORTH MAN SENTENCED TO 40 YEARS IMPRISONMENT
FOLLOWING CONVICTION ON DRUG AND FIREARMS CHARGES

Defendant Attempted an Escape Plot That Involved Murdering Deputy U.S. Marshals

United States Attorney Richard B. Roper announced that Brian Keith Casper was sentenced today in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, by United States District Judge Terry R. Means, to 480 months imprisonment, without the possibility of parole. Casper was convicted earlier this year by a federal jury on firearms and methamphetamine charges.

Following his arrest on February 2, 2006, Casper was initially detained at the Mansfield Law Enforcement Center in Mansfield, Texas. Later that month, a Deputy U.S. Marshal received information that Casper was planning an escape and therefore moved Casper from Mansfield to FCI Fort Worth, in order to prevent the escape.

The following month, a prisoner housed in the general population at FCI Fort Worth informed the government that Casper and another inmate were planning an escape that involved the murder of Deputy U.S. Marshals who transport prisoners to the federal courthouse in Fort Worth. The U.S. Marshals were able to investigate Casper’s escape plot through several means including confidential sources, intercepted letters, phone call monitoring and by undercover contact with Casper’s associates. Through these methods, the Marshals learned that Casper and his associated planned for a group of gunmen to assault the Marshals Service van as it transported Casper from FCI Fort Worth to the courthouse. The gunmen would kill the Deputy Marshals and free Casper. Casper encouraged whom he thought was a participant, but in reality was a government confidential source, to recruit members of the Aryan Brotherhood to execute the plan. Casper’s plot never materialized into any action.

U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the U.S. Marshals Service, the Forth Worth Police Department, the Dallas Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the North Texas HIDTA. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Alan Buie.

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