TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The FBI has alerted black and Jewishleaders in the Detroit area that their
names were on a list kept by analleged neo-Nazi sympathizer charged with illegally possessing anarsenal of
weapons, community leaders said.Richard Schmidt, 47,of Toledo, who served time for a 1990 manslaughter
conviction forkilling a man in Toledo, was indicted last month on federal weaponscharges. There were no
allegations of ethnic or racial stalking.ButScott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit,said Friday that FBI agents warned him that Schmidt had a notebook thatlisted his group and its
leaders. Agents asked about any information theJewish organization had."It wasn’t a specific hit list.
Thatterm would be inappropriate, as far as the message I got from the FBI,"Kaufman said. "They
wanted to know if we had any more information, whichwe did not. … It didn’t shake me up. It just
reinforced the messagethat we need to take security seriously."The Rev. WendellAnthony, head of the
Detroit branch of the NAACP, told The Detroit Newsthat his group was also on the list. Anthony wasn’t
immediatelyavailable for additional comment Friday.Schmidt is locked up awaiting trial on the weapons
charges.There was no immediate comment from his attorney. Email and phone messages were left Friday at his
Toledo office.The FBI warnings were first reported by NBC News.Schmidtwas charged with illegally possessing
18 firearms, body armor and morethan 40,000 rounds of ammunition and trafficking in counterfeit
clothingmarked with brand names such as the National Football League, Nike andReebok.The indictment said
guns seized from Schmidt included pistols, shotguns and assault rifles.AnFBI affidavit filed in December
says at least seven high-capacityammunition magazines were found inside Schmidt’s sports memorabiliastore in
Bowling Green.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.