Dormont man with white supremacist ties headed back to prison

A Dormont man previously linked to white supremacist groups will spend 13 months in prison and another nine month in community confinement for violating his federal probation, a judge ruled Tuesday.

This is the second time Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 39, has violated probation from his original 2010 conviction of a being a felon in possession of a firearm.

U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab said Lloyd can spend the first six months of community confinement at a mental health facility and the remaining three months on outpatient status, if he can find a facility willing to accept him. Otherwise, Lloyd will spend nine months at a halfway house, the judge ruled.

Lloyd violated probation the first time by using an unmonitored computer to access Facebook and post threats against the police. In particular, he posted a message praising convicted cop killer Richard Poplawski, who fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers in Stanton Heights in April 2009.

Within two months of his release from prison for that first probation violation, he was back in court.

Probation officers said Lloyd used library computers this summer in Mt. Lebanon and Dormont to avoid the court-ordered monitoring of his internet use.

He placed an online order for a Blackthorn Shillelagh Fighting Stick, which is a stick with a heavy ball on one end. He also watched videos of women being incapacitated by chloroform and tied up, prosecutors said.

While not an offense, he also lied to his probation officer about shouting “white power” and giving a Nazi salute outside of former Rep. Tim Murphy's officer during an Aug. 14 protest, and placed anti-Semitic fliers on vehicles in Shadyside five days later, prosecutors said.