The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested the leader and two members of a violent and radical white supremacy group based in Southern California.
According to the federal complaint unsealed on Wednesday, the FBI captured Robert Paul Rundo, the leader of the extremist neo-Nazi gang called Rise Above Movement (RAM). The agency also apprehended RAM members Robert Boman and Tyler Laube.
Federal authorities are still looking for a fourth RAM member identified as Aaron Eason. The four white nationalists are facing charges for allegedly violating the federal conspiracy and riots statutes.
The indictment alleged that the defendants used the internet “with intent to incite, organize, promote, encourage, or participate in or carry on riots or to commit acts of violence…”
RAM members violently attacked counter-protestors are political rallies
In 2017, “the defendants and other RAM members traveled to political rallies” across California and “violently attacked and assaulted counter-protestors, according to the indictment.
