A masked TikToker with ties to the alleged conspirators accused of planning an assault on the White Home‘s UFC occasion threatened to assault an influence grid in Sacramento on the Fourth of July, federal officers stated.
Elk Grove resident Trevon McDaniel, 19, aka @the_wild_wolfspider on TikTok, was arrested this week for allegedly making threats “regarding an try to wreck or destroy buildings or property via hearth or explosives,” U.S. Lawyer Eric Grant for the Jap District of California introduced.
McDaniel — who had been involved with the alleged “ringleader” of the UFC drone assault plot on the White Home’s south garden final month — later posted a TikTok video about “conducting an assault centered across the July Fourth vacation involving using fireworks towards federal buildings and property,” the legal criticism acknowledged.
The video confirmed {the teenager}, wearing a black superhero-style masks with large purple eyes, calling on individuals to carry onto their fireworks as a result of “we would have to make some noise this yr.”
“I’m probably not plotting or planning or telling anyone to do something,” McDaniel says within the clip.
“I’m simply saying, for everybody in Sacramento, we all know you’re keen on your fireworks. It’d be a disgrace if fireworks had been going off close to mills, so sure federal buildings had been shedding their energy.”
There are extra movies of the TikToker standing exterior the John E. Moss Federal constructing in Sacramento, protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “illegally detained” residents.
Authorities stated they turned conscious of McDaniel in the course of the investigation into Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez,” the accused ringleader of the White Home plot.
“After Alvarez’s arrest in Nebraska, investigators reviewed knowledge from Alvarez’s cellphone, which contained TikTok messages between Alvarez and the account ‘the_wild_wolfspider’ from April 17 to June 7, 2026,” authorities stated.
Federal officers stated they later recognized the account as belonging to McDaniel.
Throughout a search of his residence in Elk Grove, officers stated they discovered the “costume matching these seen in his TikTok movies, his cellphone, two mini‑batons, and a baton holster.”
McDaniel denied that he was the particular person behind the masks, however his spouse advised authorities her husband was working the account. He had been carrying the costume and calling himself the “wolfspider” for the final six months, the criticism stated.
He was arrested for making threats regarding an try to wreck or destroy buildings or property via hearth or explosives, and he made his first court docket look Monday
If convicted, McDaniel faces a most sentence of 10 years in jail.
Whereas McDaniel was not a participant within the accused White Home suspects’ Sign chat group, authorities stated “he was in direct communication with” Alvarez.
Alavarez and his different alleged co-conspirators are accused of scheming to kill President Trump and different prime authorities officers on the UFC occasion on June 14.
The alleged plotters, who had been arrested in Ohio, Missouri and California, are accused of eager to assault the UFC Freedom 250 occasion with explosive-laden drones after which choose off fleeing members of the gang with a group of snipers.
Authorities stated Alvarez was liable for planning, organizing and directing the coordinated assault, which was thwarted by the FBI and native authorities.
