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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Six Utah men were among a large white supremacist group arrested Saturday on charges of plotting to assassinate an LGBTQ rally in Idaho. Police had received information in the previous two days that people were planning to disrupt pride events at Coeur D’Alene, resulting in police officers having a great presence at the events, said Coeur D’Alene Police Chief Lee White during press conference broadcast by the channel. KHQ-Q6 on Sunday. At 1:38 p.m. On Sunday, a “worried citizen” reported that about 20 people “jumped into a U-Haul wearing masks. “They had shields and they said, ‘They looked like a small army,’” Lee said. Police stopped traffic about 10 minutes later and arrested 31 people in the van. They were wearing shields, shin guards and other riot gear, including “at least one smoke grenade,” according to the police chief. Among the Utah men arrested was 27-year-old Jared Michael Boyce of Springville. Branden Mitchell Haney, 35, of Kaysville; Cameron Kathan Pruitt, 23, of Midway; Alexander Nicholai Sisenstein, 27, of Midvale; Dakota Ray Tabler, 29, of West Valley City. and Nathaniel Taylor Whitfield, 24, of Elk Ridge, according to an Idaho Jail Detention Report. Lee said the men were arrested in connection with a riot plot. Although the riot plot is a misdemeanor, Lee told reporters he would rather arrest the group to prevent the uprising than allow them to start the uprising. “At this point, they seemed to be affiliated with the Patriot Front,” he said. The team members wore the same outfit, with insignia and logos, and a patch that read Patriot Front. The group included people from many states, including Texas, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Virginia, Lee said. Officers were expected to continue holding evidence in the coming days. “I do not think this would have been so successful if we did not have an extremely resourceful citizen who saw something that bothered him a lot and told us about it. It is clear to us, based on the equipment that everyone had with them, the things they had in “They were in U-Haul with them, along with the documents that were confiscated from them, that they had come to revolt in the city center,” Li said. He said the documents “looked similar” to an operation plan that the army would use. When asked if people had firearms, Lee said he did not have that information. He said he had not personally seen any firearms. Lee did not know where they rented the U-Haul, but they loaded it in the parking lot of a local hotel. ×

Ashley Imlay covers government policy and breaking news for KSL.com. A lifelong Utahn, Ashley has also worked as a reporter for Deseret News and is a graduate of Dixie State University.