Thread by @nate_thayer

How the FBI located #Oathkeepers head Stewart Rhodes to arrest him for seditious conspiracy. Rhodes was living in Granbury, Texas, but quietly moved out months ago, opened a PO Box, and his physical whereabouts were unclear for weeks. Until he started selling his guns online.../1

Rhodes bought $22,500 in guns & gun equipment btwn Dec 30 & Jan 4 as he travelled to D.C. Btwn Jan 10-19, he spent another $17,500 in guns & gun parts & equipment, totaling $40,000 in the days immediately prior & after Jan 6. These transactions were recorded by the feds...1/

On December 30 2020 Rhodes bought 2 night vision devices & 1 gun sight for $7000 & shipped them to an individual in VA, near D.C., where they arrived January 4. He bought $4500 in Mississippi on gun equipment, incl sights, mounts, optic plates, magazines, & other gun parts.../3

On January 1 and 2, 2021 Rhodes spent approximately $5000 on firearms and related equipment, including a shotgun, scope, magazines, sights, optics, a bipod, a mount, a case of ammunition, and gun cleaning supplies.../4

On January 3, 2021, Rhodes left Granbury, Texas & began traveling to the D.C. area. While traveling Rhodes spent $6000 in Texas on an AR-platform rifle and firearms equipment, including sights, mounts, triggers, slings, and additional firearms attachments.../5

Then, on Dec 15, 2021 Rhodes began selling some of this same weapons equipment on a TX online gun trading site using his phone #, & said he lived in prosper, TX. He was staying at a home owned by arrested co-conspirator Roberto Minuto.../6

But the TX gun trading site allows one to ID the IP address of the gun seller, which came back to a home in the small town of Little Elm, TX

The home that was raided and where Rhodes was arrested in Little Elm, TX is owned by Chad Rogers, a licensed Private investigator in TX who owns a company called Blackrock Intelligence Agency LLC