A North Carolina man indicted last month on child pornography charges had searched for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home online, traveled near the home and wrote a checklist that ended with the word “execute,” the Associated Press reports. Alexander Hillel Treisman is in custody in Durham. An officer with the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the Joint Terrorism Task Force testified that a search of Treisman’s electronic devices and account showed a timeline of internet searches between March and May of this year seeking information about Biden’s home address, state gun laws, rifle parts and night vision goggles. The officer said the search turned up a meme Treisman posted in April with the caption “should I kill joe biden?” as well as purchasing an AR-15 in New Hampshire.
Also found on the man’s cellphone was a video as he drove by the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, where a mass shooting killed 58 people and injured more than 800 at an open-air concert in 2017. A note on the phone described a plan for a mass shooting at a mall food court on Christmas or Black Friday, and there were images from video footage of the mosque shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 51 worshippers were killed in 2019. The discoveries began with a report of an abandoned van. Police officers looking inside the van saw an AR-15-style rifle, a box for a Taurus .380 handgun, a canister of the explosive material Tannerite and a box of 5.56 caliber ammunition. A search of the van found $509,000 in cash, firearms, books on survival, bomb making, improvised weapons and Islam, drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings.