From Fox News: Washington, D.C., police say they arrested a New Jersey man with hundreds of homemade explosives and a manifesto containing “significant animosity” toward Catholics, Jews, the U.S. Supreme Court and Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a cathedral hours before it was supposed to host an annual event that some justices were expected to attend.
A Metropolitan Police Department officer found Louis D. Geri, 41, camped out in a green tent in front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. around 5 a.m. on Sunday.
Police were securing the area ahead of the event, called Red Mass, and they asked Geri to move his tent, according to an affidavit.
That’s when Geri told the officer he had explosives, and warned, “You might want to stay back and call the federales.”
When a bomb squad member arrived, Geri bizarrely asked, “Do you want me to throw one out? I’ll test one out in the street. I have a hundred plus of them.”
“No one will get hurt,” he allegedly told the officers. “There will be a hole in the street. If you just step back, I’ll take out that tree.”
When the officer convinced Geri to open his tent, she allegedly saw him with a butane lighter “clenched” in one hand along with an “unknown white cap-shaped object,” the report explains.
He also gave the officer a 9-page document titled, “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.”
After Geri finally left his tent and officers arrested him, they searched his tent and found “a large cache of handmade destructive devices,” as well as writings that allegedly “revealed his significant animosity toward the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of [the Supreme Court] and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement.]”
The D.C. Police Department press release on Louis’ arrest said very little about the stash of explosives found in his tent, but noted that he was charged with Unlawful Entry, Threats to Kidnap or Injure a Person, and Possession of a Molotov Cocktail.
The Metropolitan Police Department releases a statement regarding an arrest made outside of St. Matthew’s Cathedral this morning.
Read here: https://t.co/lMr6FeJAXo pic.twitter.com/V5bl2Gkq9U
— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) October 5, 2025
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