Cambridge Man Offered $500 To Kill ICE Agents: US Attorney

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A Cambridge man was arrested Thursday on charges of threatening ICE agents, including allegedly offering $500 on Twitter to anyone who would kill an agent. The US Attorney’s office said Brandon Ziobrowski, 33, was arrested on Long Island and charged with making an interstate threat by tweeting a solicitation for murder-for-hire.

"I am broke but will scrounge and literally give $500 to anyone who kills an ICE agent," Ziobrowski wrote in that tweet.

He also reportedly tweeted increasingly violent tweets, including one that indicated he wanted to "slit" Sen. John McCain's throat, and another that promoted the violence of law enforcement agents.

“Guns should only be legal for shooting the police like the second amendment intended,” reads a Tweet from February, according to the US Attorney's Office.

Ziobrowski's Twitter account appears to be suspended now.

The Cambridge man is scheduled to appear in federal court in New York Thursday before he is to be transferred to Massachusetts, where he is scheduled to appear in court and face charges of up to five years in prison with three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

US Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters in a press conference Ziobrowski's threats come amid a national, and local trend.

“There is a trend upwards in threats against law enforcement,” said Lelling.

The case against the Cambridge man highlights that there is a difference between free speech and intentionally inciting violence, he said. Four law enforcement professionals in the Commonwealth have been shot recently and two, fatally.

"The temperature has gotten a little too high...Feeling strongly is fine. Putting lives in danger, not fine,” said Lelling during the press conference.

"I can promise you that during my tenure this office will aggressively prosecute those who threaten law enforcement officers," said Lelling with FBI officials standing nearby.

The tweet:

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Photo courtesy US Attorney Andrew Lelling