BY TOM O'NEILL
The Cincinnati Enquirer

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One of two fugitive brothers indicted in a shootout with police in Wilmington, Ohio on Feb. 15, was indicted on federal firearms charges Tuesday by a grand jury in Spokane, Wash., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced.

Chevie O'Brien Kehoe, 24, is accused of possessing two stolen firearms. At least one of the guns was reported stolen from a federally licensed gun dealer and white supremacist, William Mueller, 52, who was found slain in June in rural Arkansas. The other weapon is believed to have been stolen during a burglary in Washington state. Arkansas officials last week confirmed to The Enquirer that Mr. Kehoe is a suspect in the gun theft, but not the murder.

Mr. Kehoe also was charged Tuesday with possession of an unlicensed machine gun on or about Oct. 21, 1994, the Spokane office of the ATF said.

He and his brother, Cheyne Kehoe, 20, have been indicted on numerous state charges in connection with the Wilmington shootout, including attempted murder. Chevie Kehoe is believed to be the driver in a widely distributed videotape of the incident, captured on the Ohio Highway Patrol trooper's dashboard video camera.

The brothers, suspected Aryan Nations white supremacists, have been fugitives for 12 days, and were believed to be traveling in a 1977 Executive mobile home with Montana license plates, possibly with their wives and children, state police say.

Some law enforcement officials believe they might have made their way back to the Northwest, possibly via Canada.

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