WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has made two more arrests in connection with the disruption of a Minnesota church service by anti-ICE demonstrators on Jan. 18, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Bondi wrote on X. “We have made two more arrests in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson.”
A total of nine people have been arrested in connection with the incident, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who was busted Friday while in Los Angeles to cover the Grammy Awards.
Prosecutors claimed that Lemon, 59, “knowingly joined a mob to terrorize” the congregation at Cities Church in St. Paul — but a judge ordered him released with no bail or restrictions on his travel.
In addition to Lemon, Richardson and Austin, a federal indictment unsealed Friday named Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, William Scott Kelly, Trahern Jeen Crews, Jamael Lydell Lundy and Georgia Ellyse Fort as defendants in the case.
All nine have been charged with conspiring “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate multiple persons, including the clergy, staff, and congregants of the Cities Church,” according to the 14-page document.
