Man Arrested for Threatening FBI Agent After Protesters Loot Government Vehicles
A suburban Chicago man, Jose Alberto Ramirez, 28, is facing federal charges for threatening an FBI agent whose contact information was stolen during protests following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis last month.
Ramirez is currently held in Chicago awaiting an extradition hearing that may send him back to Minneapolis to face charges of transmitting threats, as per court records.
The incident dates back to January 7 when Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, leading to escalated tensions between protesters and law enforcement. FBI evidence technicians had to evacuate the crime scene on foot, leaving two government vehicles unattended. It was during this chaos that protesters looted the vehicles, stealing two guns, FBI credentials, and federal employee rosters containing personal information of federal workers.
Following the theft, federal agents whose information was compromised started receiving threatening phone calls and online messages. Some even reported suspicious activities outside their homes. One FBI agent in particular received threats from multiple individuals on his government phone, some of which were traced back to Ramirez through a previous Schaumburg police report.
On the day after Good’s death, a person using Ramirez’s phone number left threatening voicemails and texts to the agent, mentioning personal details like the locations of the agent’s family members.
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