Federal agents have charged an Indiana man with transmitting online threats to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last week as the Chicago area experienced a renewed wave of immigration enforcement actions.
According to a criminal complaint unsealed this week in the Northern District of Indiana, 35-year-old Alexander Frances Jakeway of Valparaiso was arrested after Homeland Security Investigations’ Chicago office traced a series of allegedly threatening social media posts to him.
The posts, made under the Twitter username @heelest, included statements urging people to “shoot an ICE agent dead” and “actually kill these goons,” according to an affidavit filed by an HSI task force officer. Another tweet, referencing a recent immigration action in Chicago, said simply, “Shoot on sight.”…