The FBI has arrested two alleged members of the far-right anti-government group the Boogaloo Boys, with authorities increasingly concerned about the potential for violence in the leadup to next week's midterm elections.
Timothy Teagan appeared Wednesday in federal court in Detroit on charges of being a drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition, and giving a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, according to an unsealed federal complaint.
Election workers have increasingly been targeted by threats and harassment since the 2020 election, and it's gotten worse in recent weeks - five people have already been charged with intimidation. McKillips' lawyer, Neil McElroy, said via email Wednesday that McKillips was taken into custody and that he has asked for McKillips to be released pending a Nov. 9 detention hearing in Toledo, Ohio.
In May of this year, McKillips and another user in the Signal messaging system threatened to kill a different Signal user in the belief the person was a federal informant who worked for the FBI or Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the complaint says. And in July, McKillips threatened in a Signal chat group that he would "smoke a hog," meaning kill a police officer, if conditions worsened following a fatal police shooting in Akron, it says.
Dressed in colorful Hawaiian-style shirt - a uniform of sorts for adherents to the so-called boogaloo movement, which espouses that a second U.S. civil war is coming - Teagan told the court that he might seek to retain his own attorney. Teagan was among a dozen or so people who openly carried guns while demonstrating in January 2021 outside of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. Some promoted the boogaloo movement. Teagan told reporters at the time that the demonstration's purpose was "to urge a message of peace and unity to the left and right."
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