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Man found dead after crash outside power facility in southern Nevada
NBC News ^ | 2/21/26 | Dennis Romero

Posted on 02/21/2026 10:20:32 AM PST by CFW

A man fatally shot himself after his rental car, filled with weapons and explosive materials, breached the perimeter of a power facility in Nevada and crashed into a large cable spool, authorities said Friday.

Investigators are treating the incident just outside the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power facility in southern Nevada as terrorism-related, authorities said.

Dawson Noah Maloney, a 23-year-old from Albany, New York, drove to Nevada and stayed at the El Rancho Boulder Motel in Boulder City, where investigators found publications espousing extreme right wing, left-wing, white supremacist, and anti-government ideology, they said.

Authorities discovered thermite, ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in the rented vehicle, Sheriff Kevin McCahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said at a news conference Friday.

It also contained multiple firearms, including two shotguns, a clone of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle but possibly in pistol form, numerous .223 caliber magazines that could feed an AR-15 clone, flame throwers, and a hatchet, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: andahatchet; attack; banglist; lasvegas; powerstation; thermite
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Well this sounds interesting. He had quite the versatile collection.
1 posted on 02/21/2026 10:20:32 AM PST by CFW
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That outcome is much better than “no suspects after man escapes” and “local sheriff refuses FBI help despite admitting no leads in finding suspect.”


2 posted on 02/21/2026 10:22:41 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Sounds like, “Telefon.” Was he mumbling something about the woods, before he went?


3 posted on 02/21/2026 10:24:28 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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LOL!......and,oh, by the way, his car was filled with flammable and explosives!


4 posted on 02/21/2026 10:26:15 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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Sounds like an UberGuns delivery guy followed the wrong directions on the driving app.


5 posted on 02/21/2026 10:27:21 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Attacking the Infrastructure

Who is driving these people?


6 posted on 02/21/2026 10:27:57 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Good movie


7 posted on 02/21/2026 10:27:58 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo sman is always intense)
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“and a hatchet”

One scene in John Wick has them using all the knives and martial arts blade weapons against each other and after one guy is somehow still alive Wick takes his hatchet and throws it thirty feet across the room where it finally lands in the thug’s forehead. 🪓


8 posted on 02/21/2026 10:28:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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where investigators found publications espousing extreme right wing, left-wing, white supremacist, and anti-government ideology, they said.

What the hell does this mean?

We all know that he is not right wing!


9 posted on 02/21/2026 10:30:45 AM PST by neverbluffer
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cue "Dueling Bandjos"

10 posted on 02/21/2026 10:31:20 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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It will be interesting to find out if Dawson Noah Maloney had any connections to ANTIFA. If he does, I bet Andy Ngo will track those down.


11 posted on 02/21/2026 10:32:16 AM PST by CFW
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Why attack the boneyard?


12 posted on 02/21/2026 10:33:17 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“Telefon”.

Thanks for that memory. I’m planning to watch it again soon now that you mentioned it.


13 posted on 02/21/2026 10:34:50 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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publications espousing extreme right wing, left-wing, white supremacist, and anti-government ideology,

To us sane people that is what we know as a Socialist/Democrat.

14 posted on 02/21/2026 10:35:34 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Samurai_Jack

Poor GPS directions.


15 posted on 02/21/2026 10:36:42 AM PST by BipolarBob (Homer: A doughnut in each hand is a balanced diet.)
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Two questions:

1. Why would a guy from New York drive all the way to Neveda to execute his suicidal mission? Couldn't he find a target closer to home?

2. The article calls him "anti-government" - what does that mean? Why is "anti-government" never used to describe lefties who hate the US and think it was stolen from the Indians? Why isn't it used to describe anti-ICE protesters? Why isn't it used to describe anti-Trump activists? Why isn't it used to describe left-wing anarchists? Why isn't it used to describe Antifa members who vandalize government property?
16 posted on 02/21/2026 10:39:13 AM PST by Steve_Seattle1
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Maybe he is a member of “No Labels,” or the “Third Way?”


17 posted on 02/21/2026 10:40:50 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“Authorities found extreme left-wing publications which they interpreted as extreme right-wing publications. They also found anti Semitic literature which they surmised was white supremacist literature.”

“These things go together,” they said.


18 posted on 02/21/2026 10:41:31 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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He had quite the versatile collection.

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

19 posted on 02/21/2026 10:42:23 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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Good the FBI got there in time to plant the far right wing propaganda and took out all the Kamala Harris video tapes of her speeches./s


20 posted on 02/21/2026 10:45:30 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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