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Wenke’s personal affiliation with the arrestees’ legal situation carried over with him even a year later. FBI assumed Wenke was going to the January 6th Capitol riots so they excessively called him in the days leading up to that riot. In August 2021 Wenke accidentally took the Peace Bridge exit in Buffalo while working, thereby accidentally crossing over the Canadian border without a passport, and was detained for the first time in his life by border patrol simply because they recognized Wenke from the prior year’s events. | Wenke’s personal affiliation with the arrestees’ legal situation carried over with him even a year later. FBI assumed Wenke was going to the January 6th Capitol riots so they excessively called him in the days leading up to that riot. In August 2021 Wenke accidentally took the Peace Bridge exit in Buffalo while working, thereby accidentally crossing over the Canadian border without a passport, and was detained for the first time in his life by border patrol simply because they recognized Wenke from the prior year’s events. | ||
===Arrest=== | |||
In January 2021, Wenke was arrested by federal authorities after a criminal complaint that he was making threats to injury another person, specifically, the attorney for Benjamin Teeter. It was noted "Wenke was upset with the lawyer for not providing proper representation to Benjamin Ryan Teeter, who was charged with conspiracy to aid the Palestinian paramilitary group Hamas."<ref>https://wellsvillesun.com/blog/2022/01/30/the-bizarre-tale-of-luke-wenke/</ref>. On March 15, 2022, he was indicted on two counts of making interstate threats. <ref>https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/crime/olean-man-charged-with-cyberstalking-making-interstate-threats/article_e5056c45-761a-54bc-b7b7-1dcb2398c642.html</ref> | |||
==Political Campaigns== | ==Political Campaigns== | ||