New York Daily News

BAD JUDGMENT

B’KLYN JURIST’S SON HELD IN RIOT

- Rocco Parascando­la and John Annese

Federal authoritie­s on Tuesday night arrested a self-described Proud Boys member in Queens, searching his home after he made online threats about traveling to D.C. after the siege on the U.S. Capitol, according to law enforcemen­t sources.

Police and federal officials descended on a home on 76th St. at Eliot Ave. in Middle Village.

A law enforcemen­t source said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Eduard Florea, 40, on a weapons-possession charge.

Florea has allegedly threatened to kill people in the past, and made several online threats against liberal politician­s and government agencies, the source said. He’s also been busted before, in 2014, when a search of his home turned up a cache of weapons, the source said.

“It’s a very big deal in the current environmen­t,” the source said.

Investigat­ors don’t believe Florea took part in last Wednesday’s deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol, though some of his online remarks discussed taking an armed caravan to D.C., law enforcemen­t sources told NBC New York.

Florea was taken to FBI headquarte­rs in Manhattan, and is expected to be charged in federal court, sources said.

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