He was charged with kidnapping, domestic violence, and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. A white nationalist who tried to run for Senate in Florida and was a speaker at the deadly “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was arrested in Florida earlier this week, according to a new report. The Associated Press reports that Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, was arrested on Monday and charged with kidnapping, domestic violence, and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. He was arrested on a warrant issued out of South Carolina.
via dailydot: White nationalist who spoke at Unite the Right rally arrested on kidnapping charges
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today. A white nationalist who ran for the U.S. Senate in Florida and was a featured speaker during the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, was arrested Monday at a Florida mall by Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies on a warrant issued out of South Carolina, the Miami Herald reported. Jail records described him as an “out of state fugitive.”; Man linked to neo-Nazis, one-time senate candidate, arrested in Melbourne on fugitive warrant charges. One of the nation’s most prominent voices in the white nationalist movement remains held without bond at the Brevard County Jail Complex after law enforcement authorities arrested him in Melbourne on a warrant for kidnapping and domestic violence-related charges in South Carolina. Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, an attorney linked to neo-Nazis who also is a failed U.S. Senate candidate, headlined a 2017 Alt-Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That rally ended with a counter-protester being killed and 19 others injured. The Monday arrest carried out by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office happened at Melbourne Square Mall at about 3:30 p.m. Monday. Authorities said Invictus, identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a promoter of white supremacist notions on race and as someone who questioned whether the Holocaust happened, was wanted out of Rock Hill, South Carolina. The warrant listed charges for kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence (…) “We received a report from the victim that her husband had come to their rental property and that he used a firearm to threaten her,” Chavis said. “He also forced her and their children to go to Florida.” The unnamed woman was in Jacksonville when she got away from Invictus. She told police that Invictus had held a gun to her head in front of their children while in South Carolina. Invictus arrived in Brevard County a short time later.