During an FBI operation on Wednesday, a man who had made violent threats against Vice President Joe Biden and other authorities online was shot and killed.
Just hours before Vice President Biden was scheduled to visit the state, agents sought to serve Craig Robertson with an arrest warrant at his house in Utah.
According to a federal complaint, Robertson threatened Vice President Biden and a prosecutor investigating possible criminal charges against Donald Trump on Facebook.
The FBI refused to provide more information.
The raid occurred in Provo, located around 40 miles (65 km) south of Salt Lake City, at around 06:15 local time.
Robertson posted threats to kill Mr. Biden and Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney overseeing an investigation into a hush-money payment by Mr. Trump to an adult film star, and images of guns on Facebook, according to a criminal complaint.
The tweet below confirms the news:
BREAKING: A neighbor recorded and released a video of the FBI raid on 74-year-old Craig Deleeuw Robertson while serving warrants at 6:15am in Provo, Utah
Robertson was shot and killed in the encounter pic.twitter.com/eVXEJX7pBl
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 10, 2023
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According to the complaint, other messages were directed at New York Attorney General Letitia James and US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Robertson posted on Facebook: “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.”
On two of Robertson’s Facebook accounts, dozens of other violent posts and images of weapons appeared.
According to the complaint, Robertson was observed by federal officials in March after making a threat against Mr. Bragg on the Mr. Trump-owned social media site Truth Social. The business informed the National Threat Operations Center of the FBI.
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When FBI officers contacted the suspect later, he described the posting as a “dream” and declared, “We’re done here! Don’t return without a warrant!”
Later posts by Robertson mentioned his run-together with the agents, featured images of him dressed in sniper-style camouflage, and repeatedly threatened government officials.
Even on Tuesday, when he posted, the messages persisted: “Perhaps Utah will become famous this week as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist.”
On Thursday, Mr. Biden will pay his first visit to Utah as president, stopping up at a veterans hospital and attending a fundraiser in Park City.
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