Overview
- Bloomfield Township Police report a Facebook account sent messages threatening to use “Molotov cocktails for MAGA,” to “eradicate” Republicans and donors, and to shoot up and burn the Oakland County GOP headquarters.
- Officials say the caller threatened to kill Michigan GOP Youth Chair Krish Mathrani and to “put a bullet” in his skull during audio calls to the party office.
- Detectives working with the FBI identified the account as Ryan Lewis Vallance’s, located him near his Waterford residence during a traffic stop, and say he admitted making the threats.
- The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office issued a one-count warrant for False Report/Threats of Terrorism, a 20-year felony, and Vallance was arraigned and lodged at the county jail on a $1,000,000 no 10% cash bond.
- The youth chair issued a statement vowing not to be intimidated, and an Oakland County GOP advisor characterized the case as part of rising threats toward Republicans in a statement referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk.