A Michigan man was arrested by the FBI after officials say he targeted the state’s attorney general as part of a larger plot to injure or kill locally elected Jewish officials.
Jack Eugene Carpenter was arrested in mid-February after threatening to kill elected officials online for their COVID-19 policies, according to tweets he posted earlier this year. Carpenter specifically criticized the vaccine mandate imposed at the University of Michigan, where Carpenter previously worked, suggesting the vaccine was developed by Jewish people as a way to control the world’s population.
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“Any Jewish person holding a public office on my land after that time is subject to immediate punishment for their participation in an unlawful war of aggression using a biological weapon against me,” he tweeted, according to the FBI affidavit.
Carpenter also warned law enforcement officials not to thwart his plans, threatening to retaliate with “deadly force.”
It’s not clear if Carpenter was targeting specific lawmakers, but several members of Michigan’s delegation are Jewish, including Attorney General Dana Nessel, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and a handful of state lawmakers. However, Nessel said the FBI confirmed to her that she was a target of the alleged plot.
“The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter,” Nessel tweeted. “It is my sincere hope that the federal authorities take this offense just as seriously as my Hate Crimes & Domestic Terrorism Unit takes plots to murder elected officials.”
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Carpenter was arrested on charges of transmitting an interstate threat, and he faces up to five years in federal prison if convicted. Carpenter was in Texas at the time he posted the tweets online.
The Michigan man is currently being held without bail, according to local outlets.