Overview
- The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said the Wisconsin arrest tied to a viral image of Sheriff Mike Bouchard was for an outstanding felony stalking warrant and not for posting the meme.
- The 45-year-old Michigan man is accused of stalking two women, making death and cannibalism threats, and sending weapons photos, and he was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and is expected to be arraigned in Livingston County.
- The department’s clarification followed a wave of X posts and influencer claims of censorship, and the office responded on the platform and later limited replies.
- Bouchard said he has received direct threats and played a voicemail urging him to kill himself, and his office said the image surfaced through a person who reported threatening messages.
- The March 12 attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield involved a truck ramming, an exchange of gunfire, incendiary materials in the vehicle, and the suspect’s self-inflicted death, in what officials call the third house-of-worship attack in Michigan in less than a year.