‘I Felt Hate More Than Anything’: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known. Steven Carrillo is charged with murdering a Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff and a security officer guarding Oakland’s federal courthouse. Credit:(FRONTLINE)
By Gisela Pérez De Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot
| April 13, 2021 9:58 a.m.
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It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.
San Lorenzo Militia Member Charged In Federal Indictment - Castro Valley, CA - Kenny Matthew Miksch could spend 40 years in prison and face a $500,000 fine for alleged actions with the "Boogaloo" Movement.
‘Boogaloo’ extremists destroyed evidence in probe of officer’s murder, feds say Derek Hawkins Four members of an armed right-wing group linked to the anti-government “boogaloo” movement have been charged with conspiring to destroy evidence related to the fatal shooting of a Federal Protective Service officer and the wounding of another in Oakland, Calif., last May, prosecutors announced Friday. A federal grand jury indictment says members of the Northern California-based Grizzly Scouts tried to cover for one of their own after he allegedly gunned down the officers, deleting chat histories that included a message reading, “Dudes i offed a fed.”
Turlock man among militia group suspected of covering up federal officer’s murder
A Turlock man is among four suspects in a militia group accused of conspiring to thwart the investigation into the murder of a federal officer.
A federal grand jury has indicted four members of a militia group associated with the “boogaloo” movement in connection with a scheme to obstruct justice and destroy records to thwart the investigation and proceedings involving the May 29, 2020 shooting of federal Protective Services Officers, according to the Department of Justice.
The grand jury returned an indictment alleging that Jessie Alexander Rush, Robert Jesus Blancas, Simon Sage Ybarra, and Kenny Matthew Miksch, all members of a militia group, conspired to destroy communications and other records relating to the May 29, 2020 murder and attempted murder of two federal security officers in Oakland. The indictment charges Rush with an additional count of obstruction of official p