California Man on Deadly Mission to White House Is Arrested, Officials Say

U.S.|California Man connected Deadly Mission to White House Is Arrested, Officials Say

A California antheral driving cross-country to the White House connected a ngo to “do immoderate it takes” to termination apical officials connected a “hit list” that included President Biden and erstwhile President Barack Obama has been arrested successful Iowa, the authorities said successful tribunal papers.

The man, Kuachua Brillion Xiong, 25, has been held since Dec. 23 astatine the Pottawattamie County Jail successful Council Bluffs, Iowa, connected charges of making threats against a erstwhile president, according to sheriff’s records.

Mr. Xiong began driving from his location adjacent Sacramento connected oregon astir Dec. 18 “with the volition of driving consecutive to the White House successful Washington, D.C., to termination persons successful power,” Justin Larson, a Secret Service agent, wrote successful a transgression complaint.

Mr. Xiong made it arsenic acold arsenic Iowa. On Dec. 21, helium was pulled implicit by a sergeant with the Cass County Sheriff’s Department “for driving aggressively, weaving successful and retired of traffic, and speeding,” according to the complaint. Officers who detained him noted that helium was utilizing Google Maps to representation a way to 1600 Pennsylvania NW, Washington, D.C.

When the sergeant, Tyler Shiels, searched the car, helium recovered an AR-15-style rifle, ammunition, loaded magazines, assemblage armor and aesculapian kits, according to the complaint.

Mr. Xiong told investigators that if helium had not been pulled over, helium would person continued traveling arsenic portion of his plan, which helium said was a ngo from God to “combat evil demons successful the White House.” Mr. Xiong told investigators that helium “believes that helium is the lone idiosyncratic remaining who tin escaped the United States of evil.”

According to the transgression complaint, which was filed successful Federal District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Mr. Xiong assembled his deed database utilizing the fashionable app TikTok, downloading videos “to compile a database of evil individuals helium intended to kill.”

The database included implicit 100 videos and targeted — successful summation to Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama — erstwhile President Bill Clinton; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s foremost infectious-disease specialist; and Mark Zuckerberg, main enforcement of Meta, the societal media elephantine antecedently known arsenic Facebook. Mr. Xiong said helium would termination Mr. Biden lone if helium did not comply with Mr. Xiong’s demands, which were not specified successful the complaint.

During the interrogation with officials, Mr. Xiong was adamant that if released from custody helium would not instrumentality location to California to spot his household and but would “do immoderate it takes” to implicit his plan. “He plans connected dying portion warring evil demons astatine the White House,” Mr. Larson wrote.

In an email connected Thursday, Mike Maloney, a lawyer for Mr. Xiong, declined to remark connected the case.

According to tribunal records, Mr. Maloney has signaled his intent to usage an insanity defence successful his client’s trial.