St. Paul Man Charged After FBI Says He Offered $45K ‘Hit’ On U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi

ST. PAUL, MN — A St. Paul man was charged in federal court after authorities said he posted a TikTok video offering a $45,000 reward for the death of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

According to an FBI affidavit filed Oct. 16 in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, Tyler Maxon Avalos, 30, was charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure another person.

Federal investigators said the case began Oct. 9, when a TikTok user reported seeing a post that appeared to be "imposing a hit" on Bondi.

The post showed a photo of Bondi with a red sniper-scope dot on her forehead and the caption:

"WANTED: Pam Bondi / REWARD: 45,000 / DEAD OR ALIVE (PREFERABLY DEAD)."

Authorities said the user who posted it, under the handle @liminalvoidslip, added a comment reading, “cough cough when they don’t serve us then what?”

The FBI said it traced the account to a Samsung Galaxy phone registered with an email address linked to Avalos, FOX News reports.

Investigators also said the IP address used to create the account led to Avalos’s apartment on Hyacinth Avenue West in St. Paul, where agents later saw him leaving on Oct. 16.

Avalos’s social media page reportedly featured an anarchy symbol and a link to an online book titled An Anarchist FAQ.

Court records show Avalos has prior felony convictions for stalking and domestic violence in Dakota County and Florida.

The FBI said the post amounted to a direct, interstate threat to a U.S. government official. Avalos was arrested and charged following an electronic warrant signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright.