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The Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn.

Militia member Buford Rogers to be sentenced in federal court

FBI raid in Montevideo
This May 3, 2013, photo provided by Jeremy Jones shows FBI agents with Buford Rogers, back left, and an unidentified man during a raid on a mobile home in Montevideo, Minn.
AP Photo/Montevideo American-News, Jeremy Jones

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A militia member indicted in what the FBI once characterized as a terror plot to blow up a west-central Minnesota police station is facing sentencing.

Buford Rogers
This photo provided by the Chippewa County, Minn., Sheriff shows Buford Rogers who was arrested Friday, May 3, 2013, during a raid on a mobile home in Montevideo, Minn. Authorities said Monday, May 6, that Rogers is charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and the agency believes is disrupted a potential terror attack after a search of the home turned up Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms.
AP Photo/Montevideo American-News

Twenty-five-year-old Buford Rogers is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to one count of possessing a firearm illegally and one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device.

Prosecutors say they'll ask for at least five years in prison, while the defense plans to ask for less than the lowest guideline of 41 months.

Authorities say Rogers and members of his family were part of a small anti-government militia called the Black Snake Militia and that Rogers was plotting to blow up the Montevideo police station, raid a National Guard Armory and cut off communications to the city, which is about 95 miles west of Minneapolis.