A well known extreme racist who lives in Warsaw got a visit from federal agents Thursday. Tom Metzger started the organization White Aryan Resistance, or W.A.R., and is very vocal about his racist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant views.

Agents from the ATF, or Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, spent hours Thursday morning searching Metzger’s home on Ferguson Road in Warsaw. Investigators won’t say exactly what sparked their search, only that there wasn’t one incident that triggered their interest. Metzger was not arrested Thursday, although he has had several encounters with law enforcement over the last few decades across the country.

Metzger moved into his mother’s Warsaw home after she died a few years ago. There’s a privacy fence covering almost the entire front of the house, video surveillance and blacked out windows.

"Tom pretty much stays to himself. Minds his own business. He’s a good neighbor,” says Pete Paseka, Metzger’s neighbor. "To each his own. To each his own. I don't share all of his beliefs, but to each his own. I just don't believe in that. Wasn't brought up to believe in that."

Metzger is a well known racist and white supremacist who has been part of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. Most recently, he publicly supported James Von Brunn, the man who shot and killed a security guard at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. earlier this month.

Neighbors say Metzger often puts up offensive and racist flags. For example, those living nearby say he’s hung the Mexican flag upside down or with a black ‘X’ through it.

"As a parent, it's a little scary. You think someone down the road...what they're into and it's just kind of creepy,” says Michelle Hayward, who lives nearby. "I find it very hard to understand. We're all created equal so I don't understand why someone has such a hatred in his heart."