‘PREFERABLY DEAD’: Justice Department nabs anarchist offering $45,000 to kill Pam Bondi
Threatening post has photo of U.S. attorney general with a sniper-scope red dot on her forehead
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged a man over a TikTok post that offered $45,000 to anyone who killed Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Federal authorities say a fellow TikTok user reported the post by Tyler Maxon Avalos to the FBI on Oct. 9, according to an affidavit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The court filing included a screenshot of the alleged threat.
“The threatening post has a photograph of United States Attorney General (‘AG’) Pam Bondi, with a sniper-scope red dot on AG Bondi’s forehead. The caption reads, ‘WANTED: Pam Bondi’ /’REWARD: 45,000’/’DEAD OR ALIVE’ /'(PREFERABLY DEAD).’ Additionally, the suspect user posted a comment below the depiction that reads ‘*cough cough*’/’when they don’t serve us then what?'” the affidavit said.
Avalos was arrested on Oct. 16, according to the New York Post, and charged with one count of Interstate Transmission of a Threat to Injure the Person of Another, in violation of 18 USC 875, which could result in up to five years in federal prison.
“He has a multistate conviction history including a July 2022 felony stalking conviction from Dakota County, an August 2016 felony third-degree domestic battery from Polk County, Florida, and an April 2016 misdemeanor domestic assault from Dakota County, which appears to have been reduced from a felony domestic assault by strangulation charge,” the affidavit said about Avalos’ criminal history.
President Donald Trump nominated Bondi in November 2024 to be attorney general after former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his name from consideration after Trump initially nominated him. Bondi served two terms as Florida’s attorney general after she worked as a prosecutor for 18 years, according to America First Policy Institute, and also served as an attorney for Trump during his first impeachment trial, during which he was acquitted by the Senate.
Bondi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
