Overview

• Ivers, 72, faces a federal complaint for threatening to assault and murder a U.S. judge, with prosecutors detailing conduct discovered after a Sept. 3 response to the Wayzata Library.
• He allegedly printed and showed staff a 236-page document titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge,” pointed to a page about killing children, and handed out a flyer touting it as a guide for extremists.
• A vehicle search recovered twenty printed copies of the manuscript, flyers, lists of federal judges, a photo of the former Pope marked with crosshairs, a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook, a replica BB-style gun with CO2 cartridges and pellets, and fireworks.
• Prosecutors say the manuscript names multiple federal judges and includes handwritten threats against judges, their children, and pets; Ivers admitted showing it to staff and said of the fear it caused, “It was supposed to!”
• Police first arrested him Sept. 3, transferred him to a hospital after he claimed a heart attack, then re-arrested him Sept. 5, with the case built by the FBI, Wayzata police, Minnesota BCA, and the U.S. Marshals Service; he has a prior 2019 federal conviction for threatening a judge.