PHOENIX, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Arizona has ruled wiretaps used during the investigation of Dennis and Daniel Mahon for a 2004 mail bombing are admissible as evidence.
U.S. District Judge David Campbell ruled Sept. 27 that attorneys for the twin brothers did not demonstrate that the wiretaps were unnecessary, The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday.
The 60-year-old Mahon brothers, White supremacists with ties to a neo-Nazi organization, are to stand trial next year in the 2004 bombing of Scottsdale's diversity office, in which three employees were seriously injured.
"The wiretap was sought primarily to record communications between Dennis Mahon and his brother, Daniel, and other target subjects because of the long-standing relationships and trust these individuals have in each other. The affidavit explains why other investigative techniques would not capture those communications or the information contained therein," Campbell wrote.
