FBI agents arrested 18-year-old Justin Olsen, of Boardman, Ohio, on a federal charge of threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer. Agents began investigating Olsen early this year after discovering his “ArmyOfChrist” social media account on iFunny, where he expressed support for mass shooters, disdain for federal agents, and admiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
An FBI agent in Alaska first noticed his increasingly threatening posts. Shockingly, and of great concern to the general public at-large, he began to amass a lot of followers on the iFunny account where he posted these threats, gaining more than 4,400 subscribers this year.
In light of the Dayton mass shooting, prosecutors decided they could no longer wait to arrest Olsen. Details on the arrest from the Tribune Chronicle:
FBI agents and members of the Mahoning Valley Violent Crime Taskforce obtained a search warrant for the Presidential Court home on Wednesday, and no one was home.
Agents were told by neighbors that Olsen had moved to his father’s home in the 700 block of Oakridge Drive. He was arrested at that site, a police report states.
Olsen was originally arrested on state charges of inducing panic and aggravated menacing threats against an officer.