âť“WHAT HAPPENED: A man was arrested outside a Washington, D.C., church with hundreds of explosive devices and a manifesto targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Louis Geri, 41, and police and bomb squad officers.
đź“ŤWHEN & WHERE: October 5, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during the annual “Red Mass;” further information reported on October 8.
đź’¬KEY QUOTE: “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives,” Geri told police, according to an affidavit.
🎯IMPACT: The incident highlights ongoing security threats against the Supreme Court and religious institutions, raising concerns about domestic terrorism.
Police have discovered over 200 explosive devices in the tent of a man arrested outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5. The man also allegedly wrote a far-left manifesto expressing hostility toward the Supreme Court, the Roman Catholic Church, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other institutions. The incident occurred during the annual “Red Mass,” traditionally attended by Supreme Court justices to mark the start of the judicial term. This year, no justices attended due to heightened security concerns.
The suspect, identified as 41-year-old Louis Geri of Vineland, New Jersey, was living in a motel in Mesa, Arizona, prior to the incident. Police found him camped in a tent on the church steps. When approached, he warned officers, “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives.” He later threatened, “Do you want me to throw one out, I’ll test one out on the streets? I have a hundred-plus of them,” threatening that “Several of your people are gonna die from one of these.”
Officers arrested Geri after he exited his tent to urinate. A vial containing yellow liquid with an attached explosive device was found in his pocket. A search of the tent uncovered over 200 additional devices, some containing nitromethane, a volatile chemical commonly associated with high-powered explosives. Investigators reported that the devices included modified grenades and bottle rockets equipped with aluminum foil and rubber-band secured fuses. Geri also had a butane lighter on him at the time of arrest.
According to court documents, Geri handed police a notebook titled “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.” Law enforcement said the manifesto revealed “significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS, and ICE facilities.” In a jailhouse interview, Geri described his devices as grenades and remotely detonated rockets.
He is currently being held without bond and faces multiple federal charges, including possession and manufacture of destructive devices, making threats to injure, and committing a hate crime with weapons of mass destruction.
This arrest comes amid growing concerns over politically motivated violence, with pro-illegal immigration gunmen targeting ICE in multiple incidents and conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk being publicly assassinated, allegedly by a leftist with a transgender lover.
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