Amanda Purcell is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media a Greene County man who claimed to be a resistance fighter and wanted to start a local militia has been sentenced. Robert Twiss, 59, of Earlton, was given time served and three years of supervised release for felony possession of a firearm, Wed., Oct. 11, by the federal district court in Albany. Twiss was facing 10 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said at the time of his guilty plea in March. An investigation began in 2015 when the FBI suspected Twiss was forming an army based in Greene County. According to court documents, Twiss told an FBI informant about a plot to bomb the FEMA building in Albany, among other things. At a subsequent meeting at his home in Earlton, Twiss revealed additional plans for his militia and the effort to destroy the FEMA building. Twiss was arrested in October 2016 at the Home Depot in Leeds where he was employed at the time. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.