A deranged conspiracy theorist who recorded a YouTube video in which he allegedly beheaded his father had broken into a Pennsylvania National Guard facility shortly before his arrest on Tuesday.
Justin Mohn, 33, was found wandering around the Fort Indiantown Gap complex with a gun just before 10 p.m. The facility is a sprawling campus more than 100 miles from his home where the National Guard and Veterans Affairs Department is accused of killing his father. A spokesperson confirmed this to the Post.
Mohn was arrested without incident after allegedly climbing the perimeter fence of the fort.
Police had already been searching for Mone for hours when his cell phone was sent to a tower near a National Guard base, prompting an emergency lockdown of a nearby brewery.
Middletown County police and Bucks County detectives said in court documents that the mother arrived at her Levittown home, where her son also lives, around 7 p.m. and found her neck in the bathroom surrounded by “a large amount of blood.” She said she discovered the body of her missing husband.
Police found a machete and a large kitchen knife, as well as bloody rubber gloves.
Government officials quickly pursued Mr. Mone as a suspect in his father’s gruesome death after he showed off a severed head in a plastic bag in a deranged YouTube video encouraging violence against government officials. Ta.
He said calmly that it belonged to “a federal employee of over 20 years and my father.”
Michael Mone, 68, worked as an engineer in the Geological and Environmental Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District.
“He’s now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country,” said the commentator, who identified himself as Justin Mohn, then went on an unrestrained rant against the government, along with the QAnon conspiracy theory and “militias” across the United States. called out. Unite to kill federal agents “in the field.”
The video, titled “Morn’s Militia – A Call to Arms to American Patriots,” was posted to YouTube around 5:30 p.m., after which he stole his late father’s white Toyota Corolla and drove it to Fort Indiantown Gap. It is said that the journey took two hours. This facility is one of the busiest National Guard training centers in the nation. According to that site.
It’s unclear why he fled to the base, but a department spokesperson confirmed that Mohn never served in the Pennsylvania National Guard and does not appear to have any ties to the Pennsylvania National Guard.
The former Progressive Party official had a storied history of sharing rambling content, including twisted songs and books about demons, stalkers, and corrupt presidential candidates.
He once wrote a pamphlet titled “America’s Coming Bloody Revolution,” in which he brutally portrayed the murder of his own family as an “inevitable” violent revolution.
He has also filed at least three lawsuits against federal agencies, including the U.S. government, over student loan debt.
One of the lawsuits alleged that the U.S. government “negligently and fraudulently” coerced him into taking out student loans from 2010 to 2014 to pay for his education at Penn State.
He claimed he should have been warned that a degree in agribusiness management would not help him secure a job because he was an “overeducated white male.”
Mohn is charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possession of criminal instruments.
