Documents: Brice Planned To Rob Lewiston Bank | Crime

A Clarkston man who was arrested Monday by the FBI on an explosives charge was also allegedly planning to rob a Lewiston bank and conduct a number of other illegal enterprises in the LC Valley.

Search warrants unsealed in Federal court show that Joey Brice, 21, had e-mailed a co-conspirator a detailed plan to rob the Zion's First National Bank branch in Lewiston. The plan, which was e-mailed to that unidentified individual via Brice's Hotmail account, detailed how the two men would take down the bank.

Outlined in an e-mail attachment, the plan, which the author dubbed the "Zion Job," called for placing an inert homemade explosive device to be planted "on school property" and then call in a bomb threat using a pay phone to force local police to react to the threat and distract them from the bank robbery.

The plan then called for the two men to go to the bank, armed with pistols, and hold up the bank. Details of the holdup, including everything from having fake license plates to how they would control bank employees and customers during the heist were also detailed to the point of being prepared to shoot someone as a contingency plan if things went wrong.

"I will need your rifle support though because if someone makes a grab for my gun while getting money of drawers we will have to kill someone," the author of the plan wrote.

The plan went on to describe the details of the getaway, to include pre-staging of vehicles, placing the cash in the trunk in case there was a dye pack inside the money, and having a pre-arranged drop-off point for the cash if the heist was successful.

Finally, the author described how they would launder the money by going to car washes around town to get quarters in exchange for the cash and then going to Coinstar machines around the LC Valley to turn the quarters back into cash.

"A sudden increase in spending or cash is the main way people are caught after robberies," the author wrote. "I will only be using the money for things I already purchase at the current time and possibly at a future date pretending if I have been saving."

The heist was planned to be conducted on April 30, the reasoning being that there would be more cash in the bank on that day due to people cashing payroll checks on the 15th and 30th of the month.

In addition to the plan for robbing the Zion's First National Bank branch in Lewiston, federal agents also found that he had a Paypal account in the name of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The Paypal account listed for "Timothy McVeigh" included both Brice's e-mail address as well as his parents' home address in Clarkston.

Federal authorities also obtained search warrants for his cell phone account with Inland Cellular. The warrant provided a wealth of information regarding Brice's account, including a number of messages which indicated he was involved in more than just making homemade explosives.

According to the messages retrieved from his phone account, Brice was obtaining marijuana from his girlfriend and her brother and was selling it as well. The messages also indicated he was trying to obtain other drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy.

Other messages included references to obtaining fake identification, obtaining weapons, explosives from a Maryland-based supplier, plans to rob the Zion Bank branch, and another plan to rob a FedEx truck.

Brice held multiple e-mail accounts and an online search revealed that he was a "super moderator" for the website "The Young News Channel" (Warning: Site is NSFW). On the site the user, who identified himself as "Joey", referred to "my unfortunate accident involving explosives" and then said that he had been questioned by the ATF and FBI. The individual went on to refer to the Spokane MLK Day bombing attempt, for which Stevens County resident Kevin Harpham was later arrested, and that "Joey" "noticed some cars following me around the past week." Joey went on to claim in his forum that he looked underneath has car and "found a GPS."

A YouTube video was attached to the post with the title of "I found a FBI or ATF GPS tracking device on my vehicle." The video has since been removed from YouTube.

"I'm not doing anything wrong anymore so I find it more funny that a 20 year old caught them than I find it alarming. They must be very new at the FBI," Joey wrote.

The FBI has not confirmed whether or not a GPS device was placed on Brice's vehicle.

Federal agents believe, based on the information collected from various sources to date, that Brice was involved or planning to be involved in a number of criminal activities including possession and distribution of marijuana, conspiracy to commit bank robbery, armed car robbery, kidnapping, wire fraud, possession, manufacture and use of an unregistered explosive device, material support to a terrorist organization, manufacturing explosives without a license and owning a handgun under the age of 21.

Brice, who is in custody in the Spokane County Jail, has not been charged with any of the above crimes as of yet. None of the alleged participants in criminal activities, either already committed or planned, have been identified or arrested.