A 47-year-old Ohio man has pleaded guilty to federal charges for posting online threats to kill President Donald Trump, his supporters, and immigration enforcement agents. Charles Bronson Ingram faces prison time after admitting to the threats made on YouTube. He is scheduled for sentencing in July.
Charles Bronson Ingram pleaded guilty on Monday in the Northern District of Ohio to one count of influencing and intimidating a federal official by threat and one count of making threatening interstate communications. Court records indicate he reached an agreement with federal prosecutors, though the terms were not public as of Thursday evening. Ingram will appear for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Charles Esque Fleming on July 7. The plea follows an investigation sparked by complaints about his YouTube posts under the username @dessertbooger9397 between January 14 and 28. In those posts, Ingram called for killing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Trump voters, and the president himself, with messages such as urging people to 'kill random ICE agent' from high locations and to 'hang Trump on the Capital staircase.' He wrote on January 13 about torturing agents and making the '1%' fear death, and later expressed readiness to 'hunt and kill ICE agents.' Federal agents traced the posts to Ingram's home using cellphone data. They noted an upside-down American flag spray-painted with 'Kill Them All' and a sign reading 'F— Trump.' On February 4, agents executed a search warrant, recovering multiple firearms and ammunition. In a post-Miranda interview, Ingram confirmed the username and authorship of the posts.
