Breaking news in Brooklyn federal court just now:
US govt reveals Eduard Florea - a Proud Boy in Queens who threatened to kill people in DC - was arrested and found with:
More than 1,000 rounds of rifle ammo
2 dozen shotgun rounds
75 combat knives
2 hatchets
2 swords
US govt reveals Eduard Florea - a Proud Boy in Queens who threatened to kill people in DC - was arrested and found with:
More than 1,000 rounds of rifle ammo
2 dozen shotgun rounds
75 combat knives
2 hatchets
2 swords
Prosecutor: "This is not just idle talk. This is talk supported by action."
Florea traveled to DC with other Proud Boys in December and was with them when they vandalized a Black church
Florea traveled to DC with other Proud Boys in December and was with them when they vandalized a Black church
Feds note his membership in an extremist organization as reason for keeping him behind bars until trial.
Florea was allegedly found with all of this ammo despite the fact that he is a felon who once, apparently, nearly choked his wife to death in front of a child.
Defense atty says he's a software engineer with wife and two kids at home
His mom in the Bronx is willing to help pay his bond. The ammo was seized from "storage." No evidence there was any actual firearm at his home in Queens.
Def atty: Feds came to his house in "a tank" on Wednesday morning.
Prosecutor: "You can't condemn what happened at the Capitol and hang out with proud boys... sometimes the gun is held by someone else."
Judge: "I am denying bail and ordering permanent detention."
Prosecutor: "You can't condemn what happened at the Capitol and hang out with proud boys... sometimes the gun is held by someone else."
Judge: "I am denying bail and ordering permanent detention."
Sorry, something was lost in my previous tweet. The feds went to his house "in a tank."
US district judge in Brooklyn says there is evidence of "a premeditated plan to exact violence on people in New York, people in Washington, United States senators..."
US district judge in Brooklyn says there is evidence of "a premeditated plan to exact violence on people in New York, people in Washington, United States senators..."
I just spoke to Florea's wife. She's worried about her kids & blames Donald Trump for whipping up her husband's Proud Boy friends & fueling their anger.
"They came over on Thanksgiving & they were going crazy."
"You saw the good in him, didn't you?" she pleaded to a neighbor.
"They came over on Thanksgiving & they were going crazy."
"You saw the good in him, didn't you?" she pleaded to a neighbor.
She said the assault on the nation's Capitol building on January 6 changed everything, and she's furious at the president for what he's done to the nation -- and her family.
More tonight at 11 on @univisionNY
More tonight at 11 on @univisionNY
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