A Minneapolis man was arrested Thursday after federal prosecutors said he made online threats against police officers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and against a person who supported ICE during the federal raid campaign in Minnesota.
Kyle Wagner, 37, is accused in a criminal complaint of violating cyberstalking and interstate communications laws for allegedly using his Instagram account to disclose personal information about a “person who supports ICE” by posting his phone number, month and year of birth, and suburban Detroit address. The complaint states that Wagner later admitted to finding the victim’s parents’ home address.
The complaint also details several online posts in which, prosecutors say, Wagner threatened immigration agents.
Court records from Detroit, Michigan, where the case was filed, do not list an attorney who could speak on Wagner’s behalf. The complaint was filed on February 3 and became public on Thursday of last week.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement that Wagner posted threats and personal information about the agents online and noted that the accused is affiliated with antifa and “encouraged bloodshed in the streets.”
US President Donald Trump announced in September that he would designate antifa as a “terrorist organization.” Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is a general term for far-left activist groups and is not a particular entity. It consists of groups that are against fascists and neo-Nazis, particularly in demonstrations.
When the so-called “border czar” of the White House, Tom Homan, announced the withdrawal of some 700 federal agents from the operation in Minnesota, he stressed that a further withdrawal will occur only after there is more cooperation from state authorities and protesters stop interfering with federal personnel.
According to prosecutors, Wagner made several posts on Facebook and Instagram in which he encouraged his followers to “confront, assault, hinder, oppose and resist federal agents” whom he referred to as the “gestapo” and “murderers.”
The complaint claims that Wagner posted a video last month in which he directly threatened ICE agents: “I have already bled for this city, I have already fought for this city, this is nothing new, this time we are ready,” he declared, adding that he would “go after” ICE.
According to the complaint, Wagner called for physical confrontation in another post, in which he stated: “Anywhere we have the opportunity to put our hands on them, we need to put our hands on them.”
The complaint also details how Wagner used his Instagram account to post the phone number, date of birth and address of a person identified only as a “a pro-ICE individual” in the suburb of Oak Park, Michigan. He adds that Wagner later admitted that he doxed that person’s parents’ home.
Federal prosecutors did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the case was filed in Michigan and not Minnesota. The alleged doxing is the only connection to Michigan that appears in the complaint.
The federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been rocked by the resignation of several prosecutors in recent weeks, amid frustrations with the immigration operation and its handling of the deaths of two American civilians who were shot by federal agents. A lawyer who told a judge that her job “it was disgusting” she was removed from her position.
The federal government’s top prosecutor for Minnesota, Dan Rosen, recently told a federal appeals court that his office faces a “avalanche of new litigation” and is trying hard to keep up with only immigration cases, while its division in charge of civil cases faces a 50% reduction in operations.
Rosen wrote that his office has canceled other civil law work “and is operating in a reactive mode.” He also said that his lawyers “they appear daily for hearings on contempt motions. The court is setting deadlines in a matter of hours, including weekends and holidays. Paralegals continually work overtime. Lawyers continually work overtime.”
date: 2026-02-11 04:24:00