A 19-year-old from Pickford, Michigan was arrested by the FBI on Friday for allegedly making anti-Semitic threats on Instagram.
Seann Pietila has been charged in a criminal complaint with “transmitting a communication containing a threat to harm another person,” US attorney Mark Totten said in a statement on Friday.
“Anti-Semitic threats and violence against our Jewish communities — or any group for that matter — will not be tolerated in the Western District of Michigan,” Totten said.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Pietila had conversations with another Instagram user about mass killing or mass killing. Pietila told investigators he had no intention of continuing the killings he spoke of, the affidavit states.
Investigators found the name of an East Lansing synagogue, a date and a list of weapons – including bombs, Molotov cocktails and guns – in Pietila’s phone notes app, according to the affidavit.
His home was searched on Friday and among the items found were ammunition, magazines, a shotgun, a rifle, various knives and a Nazi flag, Totten said.
Beth Lacosse, Pietila’s attorney, declined to comment, saying she had just been named in the case.
Pietila made his first court appearance on Friday and his detention hearing is set for June 22, according to court documents.
CNN’s Jamiel Lynch contributed to this report.
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