A Sanford man was identified last weekend as part of a group of neo-Nazis who rallied in front of the Arkansas state capitol earlier in December, multiple news outlets have reported.
Eric Adam, 29, was among 23 members of the “Blood Tribe” extremist group, which the Arkansas Times reported formed in 2022 and was rallying in Little Rock on December 6. Authorities stopped a box truck the group was traveling in after the rally; the identities of the men became public after police released bodycam footage in response to a public information request. Police cited the cited the driver for carrying passengers in the back, which is illegal in Arkansas.
Multiple Facebook posts include portions of the bodycam video and still shots from it. It’s unclear from the videos which of the men is Adam. He doesn’t appear on the North Carolina Department of Correction’s offender search tool, indicated no known criminal record.
WCNC reported that three other men in the group were also from North Carolina. They were Robert Virtue, 36, of Shelby, Matthew Morgan, 40, of Hickory, and Nicholas Fisher, 34, of Wendell.