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Edgewater NJ, the US Department of Homeland Security arrested an Edgewater man they said threatened to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in social media posts. Carlos Alejandro Tariche, 22, was charged on December 20 with one count of interstate communications containing threats to injure. Court documents stated that Tariche posted, “We need to kill all ICE agents,” to one of his Twitter accounts on December 11. He is also accused of questioning why mass shootings do not occur at ICE buildings and quoting a phrase regarding murdering people popularized by a recently released film. Investigators located Tariche by examining his social media accounts to determine where he was logging in. He faces a maximum of five years in prison.
