A Wisconsin man and QAnon supporters have admitted to attacking two uniformed U.S. Army soldiers in March 2021.
On Wednesday, 31-year-old Ian Allen Olsen, in Nashota, Wisconsin, was summoned in a federal court in Milwaukee for a crime. Olsen will be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Brett H. Ludwig on November 18, 2021. He will face up to two years in prison.
On March 15, 2021, Olsen went to the Wisconsin Army Reserve Center in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Allegedly, when he left the vehicle covered with QAnon slogans, he shouted “This is for the United States” and fired paintballs at two U.S. Army reserve members with an orange “AR-15” paintball gun. Both members of the Army Reserve were in service at the time.
The two Army Reserve personnel were 15 feet away from Olsen, so none of the paintball projectiles fired from the gun hit them.
“After Olsen fired the projectile, Olsen’s gun seemed to be stuck,” the court affidavit stated. “Once the gun gets stuck, Olson allegedly yells,’You’re lucky it got stuck,’ or something similar.”
“At that time, the reserve personnel, one of whom was a law enforcement officer, knocked Olson to the ground and carried him until the law enforcement officer arrived,” the affidavit continued.
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After Olson was arrested, FBI Said Olsen made “unsolicited comments,” including comments on his recent visit to Washington, DC on March 3.
According to the affidavit, Olsen approached a National Guard at the Capitol and told him that he “may do some crazy stupid things tomorrow” and asked the guards not to shoot him.
After being stopped by Congress officials, Olsen said he wanted to “test the National Guard tomorrow to see if they are loyal to the people or to the president.”
“Olson expressed his understanding that if he was shot by the National Guard, he would know that the National Guard was loyal to the President; if Olsen was not shot, he would know that the National Guard was loyal to the people,” he said. To the affidavit.
At the Capitol, officials stated that Olsen’s car was covered with QAnon decals, including the orange painted “Qs” and the QAnon message “Believe in my plan” and “WWG1WGA”-this is QAnon’s slogan “Where we go, we will go wherever we go”.
Olsen also drew the phrase “OMW 2 DC” on his car, which the FBI interpreted as “on the way to Washington, DC”
Olson’s case is investigated by the FBI and Pewaukee Village Policemen Department.
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