White nationalist who ran for Senate arrested in Florida

MELBOURNE, Fla. — A white nationalist who ran for the U.S. Senate in Florida and changed into a featured speaker for the length of the 2017 “Unite the Honest” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, changed into arrested on charges of kidnapping and domestic violence.

Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, changed into arrested Monday at a Florida mall by Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies on a warrant issued out of South Carolina, the Miami Herald reported. Prison data described him as an “out of deliver fugitive.”

The Herald fundamental that news of the arrest changed into first reported on Twitter by the journalist Slash Martin, who specializes in covering “hate and extremism” within the U.S.

Invictus, an Orlando-residence felony official, has called for violent uprisings. At some stage in his 2016 Senate notify to united states U.S. Sen.Marco Rubio, he got in sort attention for claiming that he killed a goat and drank its blood as segment of a pagan ritual. He failed, on the other hand, to defend the nomination from Florida’s Libertarian Social gathering to instruct Rubio.

White nationalist Richard Spencer, who organized the lethal Charlottesville rally that refocused attention on the nation’s frayed bustle household, had credited Invictus with drafting the core tenets on the help of the rally.

Prison data cover that Invictus is being held without bond and is to look earlier than a retract on Jan. 15.