Those revelations all come in an order that a federal magistrate judge filed earlier this month outlining why Treisman, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in September on child pornography charges, should remain in custody. It’s unclear whether Treisman will face additional charges related to the alleged plot.
News of the arrest is the latest violent threat against the former vice president to be broken up by authorities. A 42-year-old Maryland man was charged Wednesday for allegedly writing a letter in which he threatened to kill Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.).
Treisman pleaded not guilty to the three counts of child pornography earlier this month. He has not been charged with any crime related to gun possession. According to court documents, Treisman’s attorney noted he has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.
The judge’s order first reported this week, though, reveals that federal agents also found a wealth of threats and alarming Internet postings by the suspect. In October 2019, the feds say, Treisman created a note on his phone that outlined “a plan to perform a mass shooting at a mall food court on Christmas or Black Friday.” Posting on Reddit under the name AlextheBodacious, he referenced executing those he hated and stated that he was “going to do a columbine for a while, [but] I think it would better to put it towards something more memorable.”
A video taken from Treisman’s cellphone in April showed the teen driving by the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas and praising the 2017 massacre that killed 58 and injured more than 500 in what became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. “That’s the one, that’s where they did it … nice,” he said, according to the order. Another cellphone video taken in April at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago featured a male voice suggesting that it would be “awesome” to hijack a plane and crash it into a building.
The 19-year-old’s focus on Biden started in the spring, according to the order. Between March and May, Treisman ran a number of Google searches linked to his plot against Biden, including queries on state gun laws and rifle parts. Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.
He did so from the meme-sharing platform iFunny, which has become a popular hub for white nationalists and far-right propaganda. Last year, another 19-year-old was arrested for posting a meme in which he threatened to “slaughter and murder any doctor, patient, or visitor” at an abortion clinic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... tion-plot/
Special Agent Seres testified that on May 28, 2020, employees of the Fifth Third Bank located at 606 South Main Street in Kannapolis, North Carolina reported an abandoned white Ford van in the bank’s parking lot. Officers from the Kannapolis Police Department (“KPD”) responded. Through the windows, KPD officers observed an AR-15 style rifle, a box for a Taurus .380 handgun, a cannister of the explosive material Tannerite, and a box of 5.56 caliber ammunition. The bank manager requested that KPD tow the van. An inventory search was conducted on the vehicle. The search revealed, in addition to the items seen through the windows, approximately $509,000 of U.S. currency (believed to be Defendant’s inheritance), books (about survival, bomb making, improvised weapons and Islam), drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings, and the following firearms: a Sig Sauer AR rifle, an Intratec 9mm Luger, a Lower AR receiver, a Kel-Tec Sub-2000, a .22 caliber rifle marked ArchAngel, and a Russian Mosin Nagant M91/30 bolt action rifle.
Defendant disclosed that he has an interest in terrorist incidents and mass shootings. Defendant conveyed that he has lost friends because of jokes he has made about mass shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He disclosed that he traveled across the country and purchased firearms in various states, including Washington (the Kel-Tec Sub-2000), Kansas (the Intratec 9mm Luger Model AB-10), New Hampshire (the Sig Sauer AR Rifle), and West Virginia (the Taurus Spectrum pistol). Defendant purchased the Kel-Tec Sub 2000 from a Federal Firearms Licensee in Seattle, Washington. The information Defendant provided for his background check is consistent with his counterfeit Florida driver’s license bearing the name Alexander Theiss (DOB 3/29/1995).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGtDbf ... NlUGz/view
WBTV, Charlotte article which broke the story.
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/10/22/man-arr ... joe-biden/
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