Masked madman tied to White House UFC terror plot threatened July 4 attack on California city: feds

A masked TikToker with ties to the alleged conspirators accused of planning an attack on the White House‘s UFC event threatened to attack a power grid in Sacramento on the Fourth of July, federal officials said.Elk Grove resident Trevon McDaniel, 19, aka @the_wild_wolfspider on TikTok, was arrested this week for allegedly making threats “concerning an attempt to damage or destroy buildings or property by means of fire or explosives,” U.S.Attorney Eric Grant for the Eastern District of California announced.McDaniel — who had been in contact with the alleged “ringleader” of the UFC drone attack plot on the White House’s south lawn last month — later posted a TikTok video about “conducting an attack centered around the July Fourth holiday involving the use of fireworks against federal buildings and property,” the criminal complaint stated.The video showed the teenager, dressed in a black superhero-style mask with giant red eyes, calling on people to hold onto their fireworks because “we might need to make some noise this year.”“I’m not really plotting or planning or telling anybody to do anything,” McDaniel says in the clip.

“I’m just saying, for everyone in Sacramento, we know you love your fireworks.It’d be a shame if fireworks were going off near generators, so certain federal buildings were losing their power.”There are additional videos of the TikToker standing outside the John E.

Moss Federal building in Sacramento, protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “illegally detained” citizens.Authorities said they became aware of McDaniel during the investigation into Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez,”  the accused ringleader of the White House plot.“After Alvarez’s arrest in Nebraska, investigators reviewed data from Alvarez’s cellphone, which contained TikTok messages between Alvarez and the account ‘the_wild_wolfspider’ from April 17 to June 7, 2026,” authorities said.Federal officials said they later ide...