A message seeking comment was left with Ivarson's attorney.
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Ivarson was arrested in December 2016 after a Black family from Haiti in his neighborhood reported finding banana peels on their property on 30 to 40 occasions over several months, authorities said. Police even saw him throw the peels in the days prior to his arrest.
Massachusetts man arrested for illegally possessing over 70 firearms and harassing his Black neighbors.
Investigators during two court-authorized searches of Iverson's home in January and October 2017 found 73 guns, including handguns, assault rifles, an Uzi, large-capacity magazines and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, the district attorney said. Authorities also found Confederate, KKK and Nazi paraphernalia in the home, authorities said.
Ivarson has been prohibited from possessing firearms since the 1990s because of various criminal convictions, prosecutors said.
"Mr. Ivarson targeted his neighbors because of their race," Ryan said in a statement. "His repeated throwing of banana peels into their driveway was terrorizing and caused them to feel unsafe in their own home."