Two Tennessee men were arrested after allegedly planning to kill law enforcement personnel and attack the FBI’s field office in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
In a criminal complaint filed on Friday, Edward Kelley, 33, and Austin Carter, 26, were charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat, and solicitation to commit a crime of violence (pdf).
Kelley was already facing charges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia related to an alleged assault on law enforcement during the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021….