A U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Polk in Louisiana has been charged with threatening to walk into a synagogue and "kill every single Jew."
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana announced the chargers against Jakob Marcoulier, 22, for transmitting a threat in interstate commerce on the platform Discord. He faces up to five years in prison.
“Threats against synagogues and Jewish Americans are threats to the religious freedom promised to every single one of us, and this Office and our law enforcement partners are committed to protecting those freedoms,” United States Attorney Zachary A. Keller said in a release announcing the charges.
The FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received an online tip in February 2026 about a Discord user named “el.bostino” who had made threats toward synagogues, according to court documents. The FBI secured recorded audio from Discord in which the individual, later determined to be Marcoulier, made the threats, stating among other things that “after this deployment if the Jews still have reign over our government, I am going to walk into a synagogue with my AK, with a 75-round drum mag, and all of my extra mags, with my level four plates, and my haka helmet that’s three plus, and I am going to kill every single Jew I know inside of that synagogue. And that’s my goal in life.”
“The FBI is focused on preventing violent hate crime attacks and disrupting violent criminal plots, before they occur," Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Tapp of the FBI New Orleans Field Office said in the release. "Once the concerned citizen reached out to 1-800-CALL-FBI to report this situation, FBI Special Agents in Birmingham and New Orleans, and our partners in the U.S. Army, acted swiftly in this case. This is a perfect example of how the public is law enforcement's greatest partner."
According to the documents, Marcoulier also emphasized the seriousness of his threats, saying among other things that “you guys will never do anything about but I will. I just have to finish this, I have to go back overseas and do what I have to do. And then you'll see me in the news. I promise you,” and that “you guys don’t want to do anything for the f---ing cause when it actually needs to happen … I’ll still kill these motherf---ers in order to make sure the white youth is f---ing secured.”
The FBI investigated the case alongside the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (DACID).
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