A Colorado man has been arrested by the FBI and charged with making threats against election officials, a judge and federal law enforcement agents. Teak Brockbank, 45, of Cortez, was arrested Friday and charged with transmitting interstate threats . He will make his first court appearance Monday. An FBI special agent indicated in a redacted affidavit that investigators had been looking into made on two right-wing social media websites " Rumble and Gab " and determined that Brockbank went by the username "Teakty4u" and made threats against numerous officials. Brockbank, federal prosecutors wrote, "also has a lengthy history of illegally possessing firearms," and the FBI affidavit refers to slogans associated with the fringe QAnon movement.
After they identified Brockbank through subpoenas, authorities determined he had access to weapons even though he banned from owning them because of a previous conviction for attempted theft by receipt of stolen property, according to the FBI affidavit. He was blocked from purchasing a gun in August 2023 after he failed a background check, and he was notified that his appeal had been denied in September, according to the FBI.
More recently, the FBI said, Brockbank had shown "continued interest in violence toward public officials as well as his ongoing and recent illegal possession of firearms." It cited a message he sent to his stepfather in December.
"Four judges in Colorado have removed President Trump from the ballot in Colorado. their names have been added to my list ... their names have been moved to the front of my list," Teak Brockbank is alleged to have written in the message cited by prosecutors.
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