An Arizona antheral has been arrested by the feds for sharing expletive-laden videos “on a near-daily basis” that amusement him brandishing an automatic firearm arsenic he threatens to termination President-elect Donald Trump and members of Trump’s family.
Manuel Tamayo-Torres is accused of making “vague yet nonstop threats” against “the president-elect,” according to tribunal documents obtained by respective quality outlets. They notation to the unfortunate arsenic “Individual 1,” but sources adjacent to substance confirmed to ABC News that Trump was the people of the threats.
In the Facebook videos, immoderate of them shared arsenic precocious arsenic past week, Tamayo-Torres allegedly spouts a slew of bizarre allegations, including that Trump kidnapped and enactment trafficked his children.
“You’re gonna die,” Tamayo-Torres allegedly said successful a video shared past Thursday, per ABC News. “Your son’s gonna die. Your full household is going to die. … I’m going to enactment a spread successful your face.”
In a abstracted clip shared earlier this month, Tamayo-Torres was seen armed with “what appears to beryllium a achromatic AR-15-style firearm with a 30-round mag inserted into it,” according to charging documents.
In different video from Aug. 23, the fishy appeared to beryllium signaling himself astatine a Trump rally successful the Desert Diamond Arena successful Glendale. In the clip, Tamayo-Torres said helium witnessed Secret Service members and the president-elect kidnap his daughter.
The Glendale rally came astir a period aft Trump was the people of an assassination attempt successful Butler, Penn.
Amid their probe into Tamayo-Torres, an serviceman from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recovered photos connected Facebook featuring Tamayo-Torres holding a bullpup-style shotgun, a rifle, and the AR-15-style firearm seen successful 1 of his videos, according to charging documents.
Tamayo-Torres was arrested earlier this week successful California connected a number of making threats against a president oregon president’s successor. He’s besides facing 4 counts of making mendacious statements during the acquisition of a firearm aft helium allegedly lied connected national forms portion trying to bargain a pistol from a Phoenix weapon store past year.