'Kill Feds, Kill Police': FBI Nabs Boogaloo Boi With Grenade Launcher [View all]

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A 29-year-old member of the Boogaloo Bois was arrested in Ohio for threatening to kill government officials. Police say he had homemade machine guns and had stockpiled silencers and bomb-making materials, and had a rifle-mounted grenade launcher.

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‘Kill Feds, Kill Police’: FBI Nabs Boogaloo Boi With Grenade Launcher
A criminal complaint alleges Aron McKillips stockpiled weapons while fantasizing online about unleashing a bloody civil war.

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The suspect told informants about his plans to blow up the IRS, destroy Facebook’s HQ, detonate a pipe bomb at a child support office due to an argument over processing fees, and carry out a copycat attack modeled on the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert.
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An anti-government extremist in Ohio built homemade machine guns, stockpiled silencers and bomb-making materials, and acquired a rifle-mounted grenade launcher—which he later said he received in a trade along with some “primo cocaine”—as part of a scheme to kill as many government officials as possible before police killed him, according to a criminal complaint obtained first by The Daily Beast.

Sandusky resident Aron McKillips, 29, was arrested Tuesday by members of a task force from the FBI’s Cleveland Division. He is a “well-known member” of the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely affiliated militia group seeking to overthrow the government by touching off a second Civil War, states the complaint, which was unsealed Tuesday in Toledo federal court. McKillips is charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun and interstate communication of threats.

Investigators say McKillips spoke often to other members, some of whom turned out to be federal informants, about his violent plans—including his desire to “blow up the IRS,” destroy Facebook headquarters, and carry out a copycat attack modeled on the deadly 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert. More prosaically, McKillips talked about detonating a pipe bomb at a local child support office last year over processing fees, the complaint states.

“This shit started out being a fucking way to kill feds,” McKillips allegedly said in an audio recording posted to a Signal chat room last year in which he talked about “burning down federal buildings and shooting federal agents.”

“That’s what we were about,” McKillips continued, according to the complaint. “The main fucking beginning was kill feds, kill police, kill government officials. Kill them. Murder them. Unalive them. Delete them. Get rid of them. And then it became ‘we’re gonna do this peaceful.’ Fuck that.”

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