Feds indict Huntsville trio of armed Antifa ‘cop watchers’ caught with 3D-printed guns, grenade components: ‘Id gun down an ice agent on sight’

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October 9, 2026

Huntsville ICE Antifa — (United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, YHN)

An 18-year-old who posted that he would “gun down an ice agent on sight” has been indicted in Huntsville along with two roommates, after police found the trio’s apartment stocked with 3D-printed grenade housings, unregistered short-barrel guns and a weapon painted “ANTI FASCIST.”

U.S. Attorney Phil Williams, the top federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Alabama, announced the charges Thursday against Levi Clifton Belcher, 18, Anthony Elijah Slota, 28, and Tadashi Erekson, 38, all of Huntsville.

Belcher is charged with interstate transmission of threatening communications and possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon.

Slota and Erekson are each charged with the weapons count. The three were first charged by criminal complaint last month.

“My office will take every available step to prosecute credible threats against law enforcement,” Williams said. “I’m grateful for the partnership between FBI, ATF, HSI, and the Huntsville Police Department. Their diligent investigation led to these prosecutions.”

The case began in December, when an Oklahoma resident arguing online about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, according to an affidavit sworn by Jessi Ann Mann, an FBI special agent on the bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

A Threads account the FBI later tied to Belcher had replied: “Don’t care and also didn’t ask. Id gun down an ice agent on sight”.

When the Oklahoma user called the account a “keyboard warrior,” it answered with a photo of what Mann described as “a loaded AR style rifle with the bolt open and a round visible in the chamber.” A second photo showed the rifle with the user’s screen name handwritten on a note tucked against the magazine.

Belcher ran away from his father’s home in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in April 2025 and was believed to be living in Huntsville, Mann wrote. In June, he posted an image implying he was monitoring ICE officers in a vehicle on University Drive, calling them “pigs” under the hashtag “#migrawatch.”

By August, a federal field office in Nashville had issued an officer safety bulletin on him. A second affidavit, from ATF Special Agent Ryan Brandon, says the bulletin warned Belcher “was known to be armed” and had drawn police attention as a juvenile over “numerous open-source internet searches related to ‘improvised devices’ and the Anarchist Cookbook.”

Last month, ATF agents watching Belcher’s car in Decatur saw him and Slota dropped off wearing body armor, with rifles slung on their bodies, holstered handguns and military-style backpacks, according to Brandon. The two drove east toward Huntsville, where police stopped the car at the city limits.

Brandon wrote that officers found two 3D-printed pistols, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and “dozens of rifle and pistol magazines with various writings on them to include ‘I hate the police’, ‘Are we free yet’, and other anti-government sentiments.”

Police then searched the apartment where the three lived. It belonged to Erekson, who investigators learned “shared extreme contempt towards law enforcement” and who “was taken into custody after attempting to reach for a concealed pistol on his ankle while being detained,” Brandon wrote.

He described the residence as “littered with anti-government writings handwritten on the walls and loose leaflets.”

Slota told investigators that he and Belcher would “cop watch,” following ICE agents and Huntsville police “as a means of protecting the community,” according to Mann.

“This case demonstrates the importance of information sharing and coordinated action to address alleged threats before they can escalate,” said Ellen Johnson, the acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Georgia and Alabama.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in September 2025 designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

The federal threats charge against Belcher carries up to five years in prison. Possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon is punishable by up to 10 years.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Hundscheid is prosecuting the case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Herman N. Johnson Jr. signed the original complaints in Huntsville.

Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.