Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years for Threats, Machine Gun Possession

DAYTON, Ohio – A Centerville man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing a machine gun

Alex Jaques, 23, of Centerville, Ohio, was sentenced in federal court today to 6 years in prison for possessing a machine gun, which he used in a YouTube video to threaten a mass shooting at a California school.

The court imposed an upward variance from the sentencing guidelines in the sentence imposed against Jaques.

According to court documents, on November 15, 2022, the FBI National Threat Operations Center received a tip about a video Jaques posted on YouTube.

In the video, Jaques uses multiple firearms to shoot a Chromebook computer and threatens to attack Washington Middle School in Salinas, California. The Chromebook has a Washington Middle School sticker affixed to it.

Before shooting the computer, Jaques stabs it multiple times with a screwdriver and uses a power drill on it. The video shows an Uzi-style weapon being discharged in rapid succession and multiple shots fired from a rifle-style weapon.

Law enforcement communicated with school officials in Salinas, California, and discovered that Jaques had been a student at a school within the same county. Jaques says in the video that he plans to return to the area to ‘fill out my list of duties’ and has kept ‘names and addresses of people who have wronged me.’ Just before shooting the computer, Jaques says, ‘yeah okay so Washington Middle School you are next.’

Other videos on Jaques’s YouTube page depict the defendant driving while shooting a pistol at street signs.

Jacques also commented publicly on a YouTube video of family members of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed. Jaques commented, ‘Bullies families get their final day in court’ and ‘I will do my own parkland.’

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