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White supremacist gang members were arrested today on conspiracy charges in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho as they made their way downtown, shields and smoke grenades in tow, to turn a Pride march into some sort of melee.
The violent gang these characters belong to, Patriot Front, is a rebrand of the hate group responsible for Heather Heyer’s murder in Charlottesville, VA. Politico reported that those arrested came from at least 11 different states.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, white supremacist gang activity is no rarity; hordes of white and wannabe-white white men who make friends in the internet regularly spend their summers renting trucks to drive here and sow chaos in dramatically violent showings of force.
So who were these gang members arrested in Idaho for plotting on a Pride Month activity? WOHM has been provided (and verified) a list of names, complete with ages, of each Patriot Front member arrested yesterday. Home states for each suspect have not been confirmed yet, but we will update when this is ascertained.
BOYCE, JARED MICHAEL 27
BRENNER, NATHAN DAVID 26
BROWN, COLTON MICHAEL 23
BUSTER, JOSIAH DANIEL 24
BUSTER, MISHAEL JOSHUA 22
CENTER, DEVIN WAYNE 22
CORIO, DYLAN CARTER 21
DURHAM, WINSTON WORTH 21
GARLAND, GARRET JOSEPH 23
HANEY, BRANDEN MITCHEL 36
JESSOP, RICHARD JACOB 21
JOHNSON, JAMES MICHAEL 40
JOHNSON, JAMES JULIUS 36
MORAN, CONNOR PATRICK 23
MORRIS, KIERAN PADRAIG 27
NORMAN, LAWRENCE ALEXANDER 32
OLEARY, JUSTIN MICHAEL 27
PRUITT, CAMERON KATHAN 23
RANKIN, FORREST CLARK 28
ROUSSEAU, THOMAS RYAN 23
RYAN, CONOR JAMES 23
SIMPSON, SPENCER THOMAS 20
SISENSTEIN, ALEXANDER NICHOLAI 27
SMITH, DEREK JOSEPH 24
TABLER, DAKOTA RAY 29
TUCKER, STEVEN DERRICK 30
VAN HORN, WESLEY EVAN 34
WAGNER, MITCHELL FREDERICK 24
WHITFIELD, NATHANIEL TAYLOR 24
WHITSOM, GRAHAM JONES 31
WHITTED, ROBERT BENJAMIN 22
UPDATE: KXLY reports that those arrested traveled “from Texas, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Virginia. One person was from Idaho.”