Augustus Invictus — white nationalist and ex-Senate candidate — is arrested on kidnapping warrant
White nationalist and ex-Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus has been arrested on an out-of-county warrant on charges of kidnapping, “high and aggravated” domestic violence and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
Invictus, who campaigned as a libertarian in a 2016 U.S. Senate run in Florida and headlined the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., was arrested Monday in Brevard County on a warrant out of the Rock Hill Police Department in South Carolina. The police report describes him as an “out of state fugitive.”
The arrest was first reported by Twitter user @alexandria_jaye.
According to the arrest report, Invictus, 36, was arrested at a mall in Melbourne, Fla. His local address is listed as Ocala.
Online court records show Invictus’ scheduled court date is Jan. 15. He is being held without bond.
During his 2016 Senate campaign, Invictus drew attention for his claim that he killed a goat and drank its blood in a pagan ritual. He acknowledged that he is friends with white supremacists, and, though he denied his affiliation then, was praised and credited by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer as writing the first draft of the Charlottesville statement.
Among the core tenets: “Jews are an ethno-religious people distinct from Europeans,” “Whites alone defined America as a European society and political order,” “the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ is an invasion, a war without bullets, taking place on the fields of race, religion, sex and morality. At stake is Europe’s very identity,” “we oppose feminism, deviancy, the futile denial of biological reality, and everything destructive to healthy relations between men and women,” and “Leftism is an ideology of death and must be confronted and defeated.”
Invictus, an Orlando-area attorney, runs The Revolutionary Conservative, a website that calls for a violent uprising and is marketed as an alternative to conservative media that “play the victim.”
This post has been corrected with the correct name of Invictus’ website and the Twitter handle that broke the news of Invictus’ arrest.
