A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group has been sentenced to a year in prison for gun-related crimes.

A self-proclaimed Boogaloo Bois member from the San Antonio area was sentenced to prison months after pleading guilty to illegally owning a firearm.

A 25-year-old self-proclaimed militia member and Boogaloo Bois supporter pleaded guilty Monday in a federal courtroom in San Antonio to a federal firearm charge.

But the movement has also adopted an unlikely public and online symbol: Hawaiian print shirts. But the anti-government “boogaloo” movement has adopted an unlikely public and online symbol: the so-called Hawaiian shirt. But in Hawaii, it has an association with aloha — the Native Hawaiian spirit of love, compassion and mercy. “I think they’re an easy way for them to stand out in the crowd and to get a lot of attention. Aloha shirts first emerged in Hawaii in the 1930s and became accepted business wear locally in the 1960s.

SAN ANTONIO – A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a 21-year-old self-proclaimed Boogaloo Bois member from San Antonio on a firearms charge. Cameron Emerson Casey Rankin is charged with illegally possessing a firearm after previously being judicially committed to a mental institution, federal officials said. On Oct. 28, 2020, FBI agents arrested Rankin at his residence and recovered a semi-automatic rifle during the execution of a search warrant, a news release said. According to court records, Rankin illegally possessed a firearm with the capability and means to affect violence in furtherance of his beliefs. Rankin posted other photos which included a quote, stating, “Diligently Plotting to Take Over the World in order to Leave You Alone,” officials said.

MINNEAPOLIS – A Texas man who says he is affiliated with the Boogaloo Bois anti-government movement and is suspected of opening fire on a Minneapolis police station during a protest in May is facing riot charges, a federal prosecutor announced Friday. U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald said Friday that she has charged the 26-year-old Hunter, of Boerne, Texas, with traveling across state lines to participate in a riot. According to a criminal complaint, Hunter traveled from Texas to Minneapolis in late May to join in protests over George Floyd’s death. According to the complaint, Hunter claims to be a member of the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely-connected anti-government group, and he made statements on social media describing what he did in Minneapolis. Several days after the stop, according to the complaint, agents learned of Hunter's online affiliation with Boogaloo Bois member Steven Carrillo.

It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists. Boogaloo members appear to hold conflicting ideological views with some identifying as anarchists and others rejecting formal titles. Gun-toting Boogaloo members also have appeared at George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Atlanta and elsewhere, according to The Washington Post. Known for sporting Hawaiian shirts and arriving to public protests heavily armed, the decentralized Boogaloo movement -- sometimes referred to as the "Boogaloo Bois" -- is often associated with the far-right. On the streets of Minneapolis, Teeter said his group hasn't always been "kitted out" with guns drawn.