Overview
- Rayden Tanner Coleman, 18, of St. Helens was arrested after a Feb. 4 high‑risk traffic stop where police reported finding glass bottles and surveillance equipment.
- Court records say Coleman wrote a manifesto, discussed forming a separatist group called the Cascadia Rangers Coalition, and talked of recruiting others to target ICE agents.
- Affidavits describe Discord messages about following ICE personnel home, threats to behead agents and display the heads at the Warm Springs reservation, and mention of a friend’s father who works security at Portland’s ICE facility.
- Investigators say roommates and a parent alerted police after attempts to dissuade him, with witnesses reporting he gathered knives, tactical tools, and bottles while purchasing hand sanitizer as an accelerant and arranging payment for a rifle.
- Coleman was arraigned on six counts of unlawful manufacture and six counts of unlawful possession of a destructive device, plus attempted second‑degree assault, and he allegedly admitted plans to attack ICE agents and use Molotov cocktails while calling the beheading remarks made in anger; a pretrial release hearing is set for Feb. 11 and trial for March 31.