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		</div><h6><span style="color:#240303;">49-year-old Arizona bookkeeper, Michelle Bastian, charged after &#8216;helping radicalized husband plot to kill prison warden, sent him articles from al Qaeda and ISIS magazines&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#240303;">Cops say Thomas Bastian, 39, &#8216;was planning to create an explosive device in to kill people, including the prison warden,&#8217; with the help of his wife</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#240303;">Michelle allegedly sent husband, Thomas, serving life for first-degree murder, articles from al Qaeda and ISIS publications </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#240303;">Michelle allegedly, was going to give her husband everything he requireded to execute his plan of bombing the prison when she visited him</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#240303;">Michelle Bastian is charged with suspicion of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to promote prison contraband</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#240303;">Secured appearance bond set at $100,000 </span></h6>
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<h6 id="share-pictures-1" class="share-pictures-overlay"> <strong>Michelle Bastian was arrested by Feds, Wednesday on terrorism related charges </strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A 49-year-old Arizona woman has been arrested and charged after she allegedly helped her imprisoned husband with a plot to murder the warden.<br />
Bookkeeper Michelle Bastian, was arrested, Wednesday by FBI agents at her workplace, the Urban Oven bakery in Chandler .<br />
Authorities say she sent articles from al Qaeda and ISIS magazines to her 39-year-old husband, Thomas Bastian, who is serving a life sentence in prison for first-degree murder. Thomas converted to Islam and became radicalized in prison back in May.<br />
&#8216;A known source&#8217; reported to the Arizona Department of Corrections that Thomas &#8216;was planning to create an explosive device in order to kill people, (including) the prison warden&#8217;.<br />
That same source also said Michelle was helping her husband, who has been imprisoned in a maximum security unit within ASPC-Lewis since March 31, 2009 after being convicted of first-degree murder in a murder-for-hire plot.</p>
<p>The officer who arrested Michelle wrote in his probable cause statement: &#8216;Further information from the known source revealed that Thomas had a plan in action to create an explosive device to either kill the warden or to plant it in a vending machine located within the visitor section of the prison.&#8217;</p></div>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong>Authorities say Thomas Bastian (right), with a plot to murder a prison wardens. He converted to Islam and became radicalized in prison back in May</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Thomas was trying to transfer back into the general population in the prison so he could have access to to the area where inmates meet their visitors.<br />
The source said Michelle was going to give her husband everything he needed to carry out his plan of bombing the prison when she visited him.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong>The Arizona Department of Corrections where Thomas Bastian is serving a life sentence.<br />
Authorities were told Thomas &#8216;was planning to create an explosive device in order to kill people, including the prison warden.&#8217; </strong></h6>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><strong>Thomas Bastian, who is serving a life sentence in prison for first-degree murder</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption">That same source said Michelle was helping Thomas, who has been imprisoned in a maximum security unit within ASPC-Lewis since March 31, 2009. Bastian, now 39, is serving a life sentence for a murder conviction in a 2007 shooting death that police said was a conspiracy to cash in on a $500,000 insurance policy. He was accused of being a member of the conspiracy, but police say another man fired the fatal shots.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Authorities corroborated the source&#8217;s information about Thomas&#8217; plan when they searched his prison cell and found a publication called &#8216;Inspire,&#8217; distributed by al Qaeda and another publication distributed by ISIS called &#8216;Dabiq.&#8217;<br />
Prison officials say the offending mail made it through prison security because it was labeled as &#8216;legal mail.&#8217;<br />
The the arresting officer noted that &#8216;The objective of these publications is to provide detailed instruction on how to commit acts of terrorism and to praise those that have successfully carried out attacks.&#8217; he added,<br />
&#8216;Located within a stack of detailed handwritten notes on how to construct an explosive device were several pages from an issue of Inspire that contained information on how to construct a bomb out of materials found in &#8216;your mother&#8217;s kitchen.&#8217;</p>
<div id="attachment_83676" style="width: 316px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-83676" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-83676" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/thomas-bastian4.jpg" alt="Thomas Bastian4.jpg" width="306" height="474" /><p id="caption-attachment-83676" class="wp-caption-text">Lifer, Thomas Bastian was going to get everything he required for his terror attack on the prison system from his wife</p></div>
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<p class="imageCaption">The source said Michelle was going to give her husband everything he needed to carry out his plan of bombing the prison when she visited him</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A search conducted by the FBI of Michelle&#8217;s home found letters that Thomas sent her requesting &#8216;radicalized materials&#8217;.<br />
Authorities also found a handwritten note with coded terminology that he suggested she use.<br />
In recorded conversations between the couple<br />
&#8216; Michelle states she sent the &#8216;articles&#8217; to Thomas. It is believed that Michelle is reference terrorism related (sic) publicans,&#8217; according to court paperwork.<br />
&#8216;She also mentions that she knows that Thomas is a supports of ISIS.&#8217;<br />
The couple have been married for less than three years. How they met is not clear, since Thomas has been in prison for five years by that time.<br />
They filed for their marriage license in March 2014 and then were married in May.<br />
She captioned one photo she shared of Thomas to her Facebook page by calling him her &#8216;Papa Smurf.&#8217;<br />
Inmate Thomas Orville Bastian was investigated in 2009 by Scottsdale PD for &#8216;threatening the lives of the law enforcement personnel who assisted in his murder conviction and threatened the use of explosives.&#8217;<br />
Investigators say Thomas converted to Islam after entering prison and later became radicalized.<br />
In addition, Michelle Bastian herself also served time in prison from September 2006 to October 2009 for theft. While in prison, she was &#8216;disciplined&#8217; twice for &#8216;smuggling contraband.&#8217;<br />
She appeared in court on Thursday for the charges including suspicion of terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to promote prison contraband.<br />
A judge set a secured appearance bond of $100,000.<br />
She is due back in court for a status conference on October 19 and then a preliminary hearing on October 21.</p>
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Arizona woman, Michelle Bastian, charged after ‘helping her radicalized husband plot to kill his prison warden and sending him articles from al Qaeda and ISIS magazines’
