Overview
- Carl D. Montague is charged with threatening to kill President Trump, Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller following a profanity-laced June 27 post on Truth Social.
- The FBI, Secret Service and Providence police traced the post’s IP address to a nonprofit-run Plainfield Street residence and arrested Montague without incident.
- He faces counts including threats against the president, interstate threats and kidnapping or murder of a U.S. official in a federal criminal complaint filed in Providence.
- Montague admitted sending the post while under the influence of marijuana, denied having weapons or any intent to carry out violence and remains presumed innocent.
- Magistrate Judge Amy E. Moses ordered him detained pending further proceedings after his initial appearance in U.S. District Court.