Tennessee Man Sentenced to 210 Months for Arson and Attempted Support of Hizballah

A Tullahoma, Tennessee, man has been sentenced to 210 months in prison for arson and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the Justice Department said. Regan Darby Prater, 28, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $1,289,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to the charges in April 2026. According to the department, Prater admitted that he drove to the Highlander Center, a nonprofit research and education center in New Market, Tennessee, and used a napalm-based incendiary device ignited by a sparkler to destroy a building, causing more than $1.2 million in damage. The department said that before the fire, Prater spray-painted the symbol of the Iron Guard, a 1930s-era Romanian paramilitary group, in the center's parking lot. Prater acknowledged he committed the arson because of his white-supremacist ideology and in response to the center's faith-based educational priorities and its association with the Civil Rights Movement, the department said. Prater also admitted that in 2019 he gave a document purporting to contain personal information on more than 35,000 people said to be affiliated with the Israeli government to someone he believed was associated with Hizballah, according to the department. The FBI Nashville Field Office investigated the case with assistance from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice.

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