U.S. Justice Division revealed costs this week towards a Texas man who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and threatened on social media to kill U.S. Democratic Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Prosecutors requested a decide on Friday to maintain the person, Garret Miller, in jail forward of a court docket look, in line with court docket data. They revealed 5 legal costs within the U.S. District Court docket of the District of Columbia towards Miller onWednesday, together with for making demise threats and trespassing offenses.

Photographs of social media posts allegedly authored by Miller,which seem to announce his journey to the Capitol and threaten the lifetime of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez in addition to a Capitol Police officer, are cited within the court docket submitting.

Prosecutors stated Miller made quite a few threatening remarks on-line, together with one occasion wherein he commented “subsequent timewe convey the weapons” on a Twitter video displaying rioters exiting a Capitol constructing.

As rioters broke into the Capitol, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez nervous her personal colleagues in Congress would possibly disclose her location to the mob, placing her in danger for kidnapping or worse, in line with an Instagram Stay video she recorded on January 12.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez additionally stated that she skilled “a really shut encounter the place I believed I used to be going to die” on January 6, including that she couldn’t get into specifics for safety causes, in line with a Washington Put up account of the video. “I didn’t know if I used to be going to make it to the top of that day alive.”

A spokeswoman for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was not instantly out there for remark. Miller was arrested on Wednesday and a detention listening to is deliberate for Monday.