Anthony Slota is in Alabama custody on gun charges after online threats to kill immigration agents and a roommate terrorism probe put authorities on his trail.
Washington Examiner reporting shows Slota was arrested on Sept. 10 with fellow defendant Levi Belcher. The gun case grew out of a terrorism investigation into Slota’s roommate.
Court records and social media referred to Slota as Violet. Coverage described him as a transgender firearm connoisseur who moved in leftist gun circles.
Online threats to kill immigration agents put authorities onto the pair. That trail led to the Alabama arrests and the gun charges now holding Slota.
Before the arrest, Slota left a lengthy online footprint. The Washington Examiner reviewed that activity and reported a pattern of endorsing violence against political enemies.
The same review found he trained with firearms and invited other leftists to prepare for possible armed conflict. Those posts came before agents took him into custody.
No charging statutes, city of arrest, or roommate name appear in the public account of the case so far. Authorities have not released a detailed affidavit in the material available on the arrests.
What is clear is the sequence. Threats aimed at immigration agents drew official attention. A terrorism investigation into the roommate followed. Gun charges then put Slota and Belcher in custody on Sept. 10.
Slota’s public posture mixed gun training with open talk of political violence. That mix sat alongside threats directed at the officers who enforce immigration law.
Immigration agents were the named targets in the online threats that started the chase. Those agents work the border and interior enforcement beats that left-wing activists often assail in public rhetoric.
In this case the rhetoric crossed into threats that authorities treated as serious. The result was an arrest on gun charges tied to a terrorism inquiry, not a press conference or a dismissed complaint.
Slota had urged others on the left to train and ready themselves for armed conflict. He now sits in Alabama custody while that record faces a court process.
Fellow defendant Belcher was taken into custody the same day. Public details on Belcher’s exact role remain thin beyond the joint arrest.
The episode leaves a plain contrast. Activists who frame guns as tools for left-wing resistance rarely face the same cultural applause when the targets are immigration agents or political opponents.
Taxpayers fund those agents to enforce statutes Congress already wrote. Threats to kill them are not protest theater. They are the kind of conduct that brings gun charges and a terrorism-linked investigation to the door.
When left-wing gun culture cheers preparation for conflict and then collides with real enforcement, the custody photo replaces the online pose.
