By An 18-year-old Oregon man is facing a slate of felony charges after authorities say he plotted violent attacks against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, including plans to kill officers and use homemade incendiary devices.
Rayden Tanner Coleman, of St. Helens, Oregon, was arrested February 4 during a high-risk traffic stop in the parking lot of an assisted living facility where he worked, according to court records and police reports. The investigation was triggered after Coleman’s roommates contacted law enforcement, alarmed by what they described as increasingly explicit threats and detailed plans for violence, noted Fox 12.
According to affidavits, Coleman became consumed with anger toward ICE following reports of confrontations involving federal officers in Portland earlier this year. In messages sent to a friend, Coleman allegedly declared, “I’m sick and tired of it. I’ve been preparing for a while now. But I gotta get on it im done just standing around. I’m gonna get my hands on a firearm, and I will actively kill any ICE agents I see killing or kidnapping civilians.”
Investigators say the threats went beyond rhetoric. Coleman is accused of discussing surveillance of ICE personnel, including following agents to their homes, and making repeated references to beheading officers. Prosecutors allege he planned to display severed heads at the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation as a way to prove his resolve and attract followers to a group he referred to as the Cascadia Rangers Coalition—an organization he imagined as the seed of a breakaway “rebel country.”
Friends and roommates reportedly attempted to intervene as his statements escalated. In one exchange cited by prosecutors, a roommate urged him to reconsider, telling him, “I think you are too good and important of a person to get locked up.”
Authorities say Coleman nonetheless began taking concrete steps toward carrying out the alleged plot. During his arrest, police found materials used to manufacture Molotov cocktails, which investigators say he had already assembled and intended to deploy against ICE agents. Court documents also allege Coleman had acquired an AR-style rifle for that purpose.
After his arrest, and following a Miranda warning, Coleman admitted to having plans to target ICE agents and to use the homemade incendiary devices, according to affidavits. He told investigators that some of his more graphic statements were expressions of anger, though authorities maintain the planning and preparation demonstrated intent.
Coleman has been charged in Columbia County Circuit Court with one count of attempted second-degree assault and six counts each of unlawful manufacture and unlawful possession of a destructive device. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and remains held in the Columbia County Jail on $400,000 bail. A pretrial release hearing is scheduled in the coming days.
While the alleged targets were federal agents, authorities have not announced any federal charges at this time.
PORTLAND, Oregon. ICE. The federal protective service et. al. came out to let cars out and the protesters went wild. pic.twitter.com/skbYC5kJI6
— C.K. Bouferrache aka Honeybadgermom (@Honeybadgermom) September 29, 2025
The case unfolds amid ongoing tensions surrounding immigration enforcement in the Portland area, where protests and clashes near ICE facilities have flared repeatedly in recent months. As young, radical leftwing men have been growing more violent over the past few years federal officials have insisted on wearing masks to prevent them from attacks like the one Coleman planned. That’s what Democrats are objecting to when they obsess over ICE wearing face coverings.
According to investigators, Coleman’s roommates ultimately contacted police after concluding they could not dissuade him from pursuing his plans.
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