Man Arrested In Queens After Threats To U.S. Capitol: Reports

MIDDLE VILLAGE, QUEENS — A reputed Proud Boys member was arrested Tuesday night in Queens after federal authorities tied him to a series of online posts threatening to send an armed caravan to Washington D.C., according to news reports.

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Middle Village resident Eduard Florea, 40, after searching his home on 76th Street near Elliot Avenue, the New York Daily News and NBC4 New York reported.

Florea was charged with being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition, a law enforcement source told Patch.

He is expected to appear in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday.

Florea is not believed to have joined the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol last week by pro-Trump extremists, law enforcement sources told NBC4 New York.

But he has purported ties to the Proud Boys, a far-right group that reportedly helped lead the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, according to ABC7 New York.

Florea has previously been arrested on weapons and domestic abuse charges.

In 2014, he was arrested after authorities found more than two dozen weapons in his possession on Staten Island, according to NBC4 New York.

Florea was arrested on domestic abuse charges just two days after police seized that weapons cache, according to the Staten Island Advance. He was accused of choking his wife until she was nearly unconscious and threatening to kill both her and their baby.