Washington Twp. man, 21, arrested by FBI, charged with school shooting threats - Dayton Daily News

Alex Jaques, 21, was charged federally Monday with making interstate threats, according to an affidavit filed successful U.S. District Court. Jaques was arrested Monday greeting aft FBI agents executed a hunt warrant astatine his Alex Bell Road residence.

The affidavit, filed by the FBI, alleges that “on oregon about” Nov. 14, 2022, the FBI National Threat Operations Center received an online extremity regarding contented from a circumstantial YouTube account, commenting “I volition bash my ain parkland’ nether a video astir the proceedings successful the 2018 Parkland, Florida, schoolhouse shooting.

On oregon astir Nov. 15, the FBI NTOC received an further extremity regarding a video posted Sept. 30 by the aforesaid YouTube account, according to the affidavit.

In the video, Jaques allegedly uses aggregate firearms to sprout a Chromebook machine and threatens to onslaught Washington Middle School successful Salinas, California, according to a merchandise by Kenneth L. Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

Affixed to the Chromebook was a Washington Middle School sticker.

The video shows an uzi-style limb being discharged successful accelerated succession and aggregate shots fired from a rifle-style weapon.

Law enforcement communicated with schoolhouse officials successful Salinas, California, and discovered that Jaques had been a pupil astatine a schoolhouse wrong the aforesaid region successful the 2018-2019 schoolhouse year, according to the affidavit.

The idiosyncratic narrating the video says, “Hello guys, we are going to beryllium torture investigating a … Washington Middle School Chromebook, yea Washington Middle School Chromebook from Salinas, California, wherever I program to yet instrumentality and … uh capable retired my database of duties … that I person filled retired with names and addresses of radical who person wronged maine passim the years ,” according to the affidavit.

The idiosyncratic past stabbed the laptop repeatedly with a screwdriver. He past says “Washington Middle School you are next” earlier firing astatine the Washington Middle School laptop aggregate times with what appears to beryllium 3 abstracted firearms, according to the affidavit.

Other videos connected Jaques’s YouTube leafage allegedly picture the suspect driving portion shooting a pistol astatine thoroughfare signs and pulling a pin of a grenade and throwing it, with what appears to beryllium a holstered firearm connected his waist, the affidavit said.

While executing a hunt warrant astatine Jaques’ residence Monday, FBI agents seized 8 firearms, including an uzi-style limb that appears to beryllium the firearm depicted successful the video, according to the affidavit.

Agents besides seized spent ammunition casings from assorted types of firearms, what look to beryllium 2 homemade suppressors, 2 laptop computers, a cellular telephone and “one point which appears to beryllium a grenade — with the casing of a grenade but whose innards appeared to beryllium tampered with,” the affidavit said.

The probe into Jaques unopen down the 600 artifact of West Alex Bell Road successful Washington Twp. connected Monday greeting arsenic the FBI conducted a “court-authorized instrumentality enforcement activity” astatine a location there, FBI spokesperson Todd Lindgren told this quality outlet.

The FBI requested the Dayton Bomb Squad, and the weaponry squad removed a instrumentality that was transported to Washington Twp. Fire Station 43, 10499 Dayton-Lebanon Pike. It was safely destroyed down the presumption astir 9:30 a.m. via a controlled detonation by the weaponry squad, township officials said.