Masked madman tied to White House UFC terror plot threatened July 4 attack on California city: feds
- TikToker with ties to alleged White House attack conspirators arrested for threatening to attack power grid in Sacramento on Fourth of July.
A masked TikToker with ties to the alleged conspirators accused of planning an attack on the White House's UFC event threatened to attack a power grid in Sacramento on the Fourth of July, federal officials said.
Elk Grove resident Trevon McDaniel, 19, aka @the_wild_wolfspider on TikTok, was arrested this week for allegedly making threats "concerning an attempt to damage or destroy buildings or property by means of fire or explosives," U.S. Attorney Eric Grant for the Eastern District of California announced.
McDaniel — who had been in contact with the alleged "ringleader" of the UFC drone attack plot on the White House's south lawn last month — later posted a TikTok video about "conducting an attack centered around the July Fourth holiday involving the use of fireworks against federal buildings and property," the criminal complaint stated.
The video showed the teenager, dressed in a black superhero-style mask with giant red eyes, calling on people to hold onto their fireworks because "we might need to make some noise this year."
"I'm not really plotting or planning or telling anybody to do anything," McDaniel says in the clip.
"I'm just saying, for everyone in Sacramento, we know you love your fireworks. It'd be a shame if fireworks were going off near generators, so certain federal buildings were losing their power."
There are additional videos of the TikToker standing outside the John E. Moss Federal building in Sacramento, protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and "illegally detained" citizens.
Authorities said they became aware of McDaniel during the investigation into Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez," the accused ringleader of the White House plot.
"After Alvarez's arrest in Nebraska, investigators reviewed data from Alvarez's cellphone, which contained TikTok messages between Alvarez and the account 'the_wild_wolfspider' from April 17 to June 7, 2026," authorities said.
Federal officials said they later identified the account as belonging to McDaniel.
During a search of his residence in Elk Grove, officials said they found the "costume matching those seen in his TikTok videos, his cellphone, two mini‑batons, and a baton holster."
McDaniel denied that he was the person behind the mask, but his wife told authorities her husband was operating the account. He had been wearing the costume and calling himself the "wolfspider" for the last six months, the complaint said.
He was arrested for making threats concerning an attempt to damage or destroy buildings or property by means of fire or explosives, and he made his first court appearance Monday
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If convicted, McDaniel faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
While McDaniel was not a participant in the accused White House suspects' Signal chat group, authorities said "he was in direct communication with" Alvarez.
Alavarez and his other alleged co-conspirators are accused of scheming to kill President Trump and other top government officials at the UFC event on June 14.
The alleged plotters, who were arrested in Ohio, Missouri and California, are accused of wanting to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event with explosive-laden drones and then pick off fleeing members of the crowd with a team of snipers.
Authorities said Alvarez was responsible for planning, organizing and directing the coordinated attack, which was thwarted by the FBI and local authorities.
