CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – (INT) - Four California men, who flew from the West Coast for the August 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville to engage in violent behavior, have been arrested.

The quartet faces criminal complaints of violating the federal riots statute and conspiracy.

Agents arrested Benjamin Drake Daley, 25, of Redondo Beach, Thomas Walter Gillen, 34, of Redondo Beach, Michael Paul Miselis, 29, of Lawndale, and Cole Evan White, 24, of Clayton, California. All four defendants have been charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the federal riots statute and one count of violating the federal riots statute.

According to the complaint and accompanying affidavit, Daley, Gillen, Miselis, White, and others, are members or associates of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), a militant white-supremacist organization based in Southern California. The four defendants traveled to Charlottesville for the August 2017 United the Right Rally.

They allegedly committed multiple acts of violence against counter-protestors at the Unite the Right Rally, which in some cases resulted in serious injuries.

Story Date: October 6, 2018