Jason Todd Ready Was Under FBI Investigation Before Gilbert Shooting

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PHOENIX — The FBI says it was already conducting a domestic terrorism investigation of an Arizona border vigilante when the man allegedly killed four people and then himself this week.

Ready was the leader of the U.S. Border Guards, a group of armed civilians that patrols the Arizona desert for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.

Turgal says the FBI’s investigation dated to when Ready was a member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and continued into his participation with the border group. The probe is based on tips of criminal activity that Turgal would not specify.

The report on the paper’s website Saturday says the killings have given the FBI access to Ready’s documents and computers.

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Authorities believe that J.T. Ready (pictured) fatally shot four people before taking his own life during a rampage Wednesday afternoon in Gilbert. Arizona.

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Authorities believe that J.T. Ready (pictured) fatally shot four people before taking his own life during a rampage Wednesday afternoon in Gilbert. Arizona.

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Authorities believe that J.T. Ready (pictured) fatally shot four people before taking his own life during a rampage Wednesday afternoon in Gilbert. Arizona.

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    A Gilbert police officer blocks the street outside a shooting crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Gilbert police officer Sgt. Bill Balafas speaks to the media Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. regarding the shooting in Gilbert that left five people dead. Police have identified one of the five people killed in a shooting in a Phoenix suburb as a former Marine with ties to new-Nazi and Minutemen groups. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Gilbert police officers blocks the street outside a shooting crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Arizona Shooting

    Gilbert police officers load a dog into a truck after it was removed from the crime scene Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Authorities in Gilbert say there has been a multi person shooting in the 500 block of West Tumbleweed Rd. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Gilbert police officers walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Authorities in Gilbert say there has been a multi person shooting in the 500 block of West Tumbleweed Rd. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    A Gilbert police officer stands outside the police tape outside a crime scene Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Police in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert say a man shot and killed four people, including a toddler, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Gilbert police officers walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Police in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert say a man shot and killed four people, including a toddler, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Police officers and FBI agents walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Police officers and FBI agents walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Phoenix Suburb Shooting

    Police officers and FBI agents walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Thursday, May 3, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Bill Balafas said Thursday that police believe Jason Todd Ready, 39, a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups, shot four people Wednesday and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Arizona Shooting

    A man tells a Gilbert police officer he had a child inside of the home where five people were shot Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Arizona Shooting

    Gilbert police officers walk inside the police tape outside a crime scene Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. A man fatally shot four people, including a toddler, at a home in a Phoenix suburb before killing himself Wednesday, authorities said. (AP Photo/Matt York)

  • Arizona Shooting

    A man who said he had a child inside of the home where five people were shot Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. cries after talking with police as he walks inside the crime scene tape. (AP Photo/Matt York)


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