FBI busts ‘Boogaloo Bois’ in Ohio and Michigan on weapons charges amid flood of threats, violence

While other far-right paramilitary groups who played key roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection, such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, have remained highly active in its aftermath, the followers of the antigovernment Boogaloo civil-war movement have mostly kept a low profile. But it’s fairly clear, as two arrests made this week in separate states indicate, that its followers remain quietly active, lurking in the background.

The arrests occurred in the context of increasing concern about right-wing domestic terrorism around the coming fall elections. FBI agents on Tuesday arrested an Ohio man connected to the Boogaloos who had multiple weapons and an arms cache, as well as a history of making violent threats. On Wednesday, they arrested a man in Michigan who had participated in the 2020-21 Boogaloo protests outside the Michigan Capitol and charged him with illegally owning an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.