DETROIT — A Flint-area man vowed to kill FBI Director Christopher Wray and threatened a Congressman from California after ranting online about child sex trafficking, a central element of QAnon and other conspiracy theories, according to a federal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
Grand Blanc resident Neil Matthew Walter, 32, was arrested and charged in federal court with transmitting threats against Wray and Congressman John Garamendi, a charge that carries a maximum five-year prison sentence. He was ordered held without bond while awaiting a Dec. 1 detention hearing.
The unsealed filing details the latest allegation of domestic extremism or national security threats involving Michigan residents in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In recent days, federal prosecutors in Metro Detroit have charged a member of the far-right anti-government Boogaloo movement and a Westland man accused of trying to provide support to the Islamic State terrorist group and possessing a destructive device.
