Far-right influencer arrested in Texas on charge of making terroristic threats

U.S. Far-right influencer Jake Lang, pardoned for Jan. 6 Capitol riot, arrested in Texas on charge of making terroristic threats By Shawna Mizelle Shawna Mizelle Shawna Mizelle is a 2024 campaign reporter for CBS News. Read Full Bio Shawna Mizelle June 10, 2026 / 9:06 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Jake Lang, a far-right influencer who was criminally charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection but was later pardoned by President Trump, was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on a state charge of making terroristic threats. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, 31-year-old Lang was arrested Tuesday after getting off a flight in Dallas on one third-degree felony count of making a terroristic threat. He was booked into the Dallas County Jail. The charge comes after photos and videos showed Lang outside the Collin County courthouse several times this past week during the murder trial for teen Karmelo Anthony.A jury Tuesday found Anthony guilty of murder in the April 2025 stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, and he was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Anthony's family told CBS News on Wednesday that Lang had allegedly threatened to shoot Anthony in the head if he was not convicted of murder.  Far-right influencer Jake Lang holds a sign that reads "White Lives Matter" with a photo of Austin Metcalf outside of the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, Texas, during the murder trial for Karmelo Anthony, on June 4, 2026.  Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images In a video posted to his X account Tuesday, the voice of a man claiming to be Lang alleges that he is calling from the Dallas County Jail, and says, "They've arrested me for a felony, what's called terroristic threats, simply because I said that if the jury did not find Karmelo Anthony guilty, that we the people will deal with justice. And this is a classic case of lawfare used to squash...