Key Facts

• Meredith was arrested on Monday over a Facebook post that allegedly said all federal judges involved in January 6 cases would be executed.
• Prosecutors cited other posts, including one that referred to firing squads beginning on November 4, 2026, and another that called the midterms a massacre.
• The complaint says Meredith sent the April 23, 2026 post knowingly or while disregarding the risk that it would be understood as a threat.
• In 2021, Meredith was sentenced to 28 months after pleading guilty to a charge involving a threat to shoot then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
• Meredith traveled from Colorado to Washington on January 6, 2021, but prosecutors say car trouble delayed his arrival until after the Capitol confrontation.
• The FBI found a handgun, an assault-style rifle, about 2,500 rounds of ammunition and large-capacity magazines in Meredith’s trailer after the 2021 threat investigation.
• Trump pardoned Meredith in 2025 as part of a mass clemency order covering nearly 1,600 people charged or convicted in connection with the Capitol attack.
• Prosecutors say the FBI interviewed Meredith in July 2025 about a threat to an unnamed person; he acknowledged making the statements but denied they were threats.