- James Reardon, Jr., 20, is being held at the Mahoning County Jail in Ohio on telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing charges.
- Police said an investigation into Reardon was launched after he posted an Instagram video on July 11 showing a man shooting a semi-automatic rifle with sirens and screams in the background. The video tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, Ohio.
- The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided Reardon’s house on Friday and found multiple semi-automatic weapons, dozes of rounds of ammo, a gas mask, and bulletproof armor.
- WYTV reported that Reardon attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and had been interviewed for a documentary about being a white nationalist.
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Police say a white nationalist in Ohio was arrested after making threats toward a local Jewish community center.
James Reardon, Jr., 20, is being held at the Mahoning County Jail on telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing charges, ABC News reported. He is being held on a $250,000 bond.
Police Chief Vincent D’Egidio told WYTV that an investigation into Reardon was launched after he posted an Instagram video on July 11 showing a man shooting a semi-automatic rifle with sirens and screams in the background.
The video tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, Ohio, D'Egidio said, adding that the caption of the video read: "Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as local white nationalist Seamus O'Rearedon."
Police said investigators determined the Instagram account, which was filled with racial slurs and racist comments, belonged to Reardon.
The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided Reardon's house on Friday and found multiple semi-automatic weapons, dozes of rounds of ammo, a gas mask, and bulletproof armor.
According to WYTV, Reardon is a self-declared anti-Semite and white nationalist.
The local station reported that Reardon attended the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and had been interviewed for a documentary about being a white nationalist.
"This is a person that has declared himself as a white nationalist. With the hate crimes and everything else going on, we want to make sure we do our part to make sure this person was taken off the streets very quickly," D'Egidio told ABC News.
A spokesman from the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation told WYTV that security has increased at local synagogues, Jewish facilities in the area, and the community center.
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