KQ2-TV is reporting that 28-year-old Jordan Rincker of St. Joseph was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, making him the sixth person arrested in connection with the alleged plot.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the Western District of Missouri, Rincker allegedly accepted twelve-hundred dollars in cash from a co-conspirator to help distribute payment to others involved in the plot. He also allegedly sent one-hundred dollars through Cash App to another suspect to cover gas money to drive from California to Washington, D.C., to pick up what court documents describe as a drone operator for the attack.
KQ2 reports Rincker also allegedly handed over a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun during an in-person meeting in Omaha, and communicated with co-conspirators through an encrypted messaging app.
When investigators executed a search warrant at Rincker's home and storage unit, they allegedly found weapons and equipment, including multiple firearms and an off-grid mesh network device capable of sending secure messages without cellular service or internet access.
Rincker appeared in US District Court in Kansas City Monday afternoon.
KQ2-TV reports that another Missouri man from Kidder, about an hour northeast of St. Joseph, was charged nearly a week earlier and is described in court documents as a recruiter and organizer for the group.
The FBI is investigating.
