William Lee Spartacus Faulkner and Jordan W. Link: 5 Things to Know as FBI Arrests Two Plotting to Attack WH UFC Event
Two others – William Lee Spartacus Faulkner and Jordan W. Link – have been arrested by police. FBI It’s part of a rapidly evolving investigation since Friday into plans to attack the June 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event at the White House.
Faulkner was taken into custody around noon on Friday, June 19. Faulkner faces charges outlined in a criminal complaint filed in the Western District washington Conspiracy to commit murder. He will appear in U.S. District Court in Tacoma today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
He is the seventh person to be charged in connection with the alleged conspiracy, ABC News reported.
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William Lee Spartacus Faulkner: Here’s what the court documents say
According to court documents, Faulkner communicated with more than a dozen co-conspirators across the country via the Telegram app. They are accused of conspiring to deploy explosives-equipped drones at events to shoot Republican lawmakers in an attempt to overthrow the government and possibly assassinate the president.
“This won’t be a false signal like the last 10 attempts in his life,” Faulkner allegedly said in a conversation on the Telegram app.
On June 10, no attack occurred after a group member was arrested in Ohio. Faulkner communicated via Instagram, saying “we all felt like something was wrong.”
On the same Instagram account cited by federal authorities in court documents, Faulkner shared several videos criticizing Trump supporter and billionaire Elon Musk.
The day before Trump’s birthday last year, Faulkner announced his intention to attend a “No King” protest at Seattle’s Carl Anderson Park, holding a sign that read “Happy Birthday Donny McTeeney Hands” along with a graphic comment about performing sex acts “on dead Nazis.”
His group is said to have identified several Republican lawmakers as potential targets. According to court documents, the lawmakers received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or other pro-Israel political action committees.
During a detention hearing in Tacoma on Monday, District Judge Grady Leupold ruled that prosecutors and the Justice Department’s representatives at KUOW confirmed that Faulkner will remain in custody until trial. He is being held at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center.
Jordan W. Link
Rincker, 28, of St. Joseph, Missouri, was arrested on Sunday, June 21. Rincker also faces criminal charges in the Western District of Missouri. missouri Conspiracy to murder. He appears in U.S. District Court in Kansas City today at 2:00 p.m. Central Time.
The five people previously charged were Proper, Roa, Michael Allen Thomas, 32, of Mount Pinon, California, Daniel Eskridge, also 32, of Kidd, Missouri, and Alvarez.
Federal prosecutors allege that members of the group engaged in discussions about deploying explosive drones, sniper teams, attacks on power infrastructure and possible assassinations of lawmakers and high-profile corporate executives.
The investigation is led by the FBI.
