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Eduardo Florea was arrested last night by the FBI in a house in Queens (NYC) for alleged online threats to send an armed caravan to the United States Capitol , said police sources.
Florea, from 40 years, he was arrested on a federal weapons charge at the home in Middle Village near Elliot Avenue and Street 76. Sources said Florea is suspected of posting online about the Capitol siege last week, though it was determined that she did not attend Washington D.C.
It was not immediately clear if the alleged threat from the caravan was related to the disturbances at the Capitol or a potentially planned separate event.
Florea was also being investigated for possible connections with the far-right group “Proud Boys”, sources told ABC News.
In addition to federal agents, members of the NYPD Office of Counterterrorism were seen in that house last night.
Also yesterday in New York the FBI arrested Aaron Mostofsky, son of a Brooklyn conservative judge identified as one of the attackers on the National Capitol last week. And Will Pepe, a suspended MTA employee, was arrested for the same reasons, in White Plains.
There are increasing requests for President Donald Trump to resign or be removed from office, Because the Democrats and several Republicans believe that he is the culprit of the siege of the Capitol that left at least four civilians and one police officer dead. But yesterday the defiant president denied any responsibility in the attacks.
# BREAKING: FBI searching Queens home after discovering online threats about Capitol : Officials https://t.co/CcV4Rd8xbI pic.twitter.com/kvxbEhBcox
– Eyewitness News (@ ABC7NY) January 13, 2021
