FBI Arrests Dayton Man for Racially Motivated Threat

Scott Michael Hanna, a 30-year-old man from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested by the FBI after allegedly posting a racially motivated threat on X (formerly Twitter), claiming he was organizing mobs to kill 30,000 Black people in Cincinnati by Sunday. The post, which tagged Ohio's governor and state highway patrol, was reported to the FBI by Cincinnati Police and traced to Hanna using emergency disclosures from X, AT&T, and Google. Hanna faces a federal charge of making an interstate communication containing a threat to injure, which carries up to five years in prison. Court documents reveal Hanna previously attacked a woman with a sword in September 2024 and used racial slurs toward police officers during the incident. The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio are handling the investigation and prosecution. Hanna remains in custody pending his next court appearance.