Michael Kenneth Faust, a white supremacist suspected of teaching neo-Nazi teenagers how to use guns on his Wisconsin farm, was arrested in his Franksville home on federal firearms charges on December 23.

The house, which Faust shares with his grandmother, was raided by about 20 law enforcement officers from federal and local agencies. Authorities seized nine firearms, including an AK-47-style assault weapon, and several plastic bags filled with ammunition.

Faust, 35, a member of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On December 27, awaiting a federal court hearing, Faust jumped from the second tier of a Dodge County jail and sprained his ankles. Faust, who was under the care of a psychiatrist and a psychologist before his arrest, was committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.

According to court records, authorities arrested Faust after a Chicago NSM member, Adam J. Goltz, told police that he received firearms training from Faust earlier in the year. Goltz, 19, said he stopped associating with Faust after finding out boys as young as 13 and 14 were learning to shoot on his Racine County, Wisconsin, farm.

Informants in Minnesota and Illinois provided the FBI with copies of e-mail messages that Faust used to recruit followers into the white supremacist movement. One of the e-mail messages allegedly included a photo of Faust holding an assault weapon in front of a red flag with a swastika.

In 1990, Faust was convicted of attempted first-degree homicide after shooting a 14-year-old Kenosha boy, the brother of one of Faust's skinhead friends. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

At the time of the shooting, Faust, then known as Kenneth Michael Botsch, ran for the Caledonia, Wisconsin, Town Board on a white supremacist campaign. "I am very pro-white. I want to keep this community a safe, sound, happy and healthy white community," he said then. Faust received 50 of 1,135 votes in the primary election, which took place one day after Faust shot the 14 year old.