The Eastside Antifascists, which tracks members of hate groups, issued a statement about why its members thought it was important to post the photograph: "This is not a case of someone getting drunk and throwing up a sieg heil salute. This shows hardcore believers in neo-Nazi ideology."

Stachowski confirmed that Richards is one of the men in the photo.

He did say his client is not a white supremacist and any literature having to do with hate groups that was seized in the raid does not belong to Richards, but was given to his client by Biro.

Kephart claims the Nazi symbols found in her son's bedroom date back to his adolescent years and his keen interest in World War II.

“They were stickers that had Nazi signs on them,” she said in downplaying the significance of them.

A blanket with a Confederate flag design on it, Kephart added, was given to him as a “birthday or Christmas gift from a friend.”

Kephart said the guns, nails and other hardware cited by the government were actually items inherited by her son from his father, who died in 2017. Of the drugs, she said she did not know anything about them.