It began, as so many dark things do now, on social media.
Minnesota man Tyler Maxon Avalos offered $45,000 to anyone who killed Attorney General Pam Bondi. The words were chilling, almost absurd in their brazenness.
The Department of Justice moved quickly. A fellow TikTok user had seen the post and reported it to the FBI on October 9. By the time agents traced the account, they had a screenshot in hand — a snapshot of malice.
“The threatening post has a photograph of United States Attorney General (‘AG’) Pam Bondi, with a sniper-scope red dot on AG Bond’s forehead. The caption reads, ‘WANTED: Pam Bondi’ /‘REWARD: 45,000’/‘DEAD OR ALIVE’ /‘(PREFERABLY DEAD).’ Additionally, the suspect user posted a comment below the depiction that reads ‘cough cough’/‘when they don’t serve us then what?’”
Minnesota man Tyler Maxon Avalos ARRESTED by the FBI after posting a tiktok offering a $45,000 bounty on Pam Bondi’s head
He’s about to FAFO so bad pic.twitter.com/xcAwkCmnsQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 27, 2025
On October 16, Avalos was arrested and charged under 18 U.S.C. § 875 — Interstate Transmission of a Threat to Injure the Person of Another — a felony that could bring up to five years in prison, according to The New York Post.
The affidavit laid out his past like a grim ledger:
“He has a multistate conviction history including a July 2022 felony stalking conviction from Dakota County, an August 2016 felony third-degree domestic battery from Polk County, Florida, and an April 2016 misdemeanor domestic assault from Dakota County, which appears to have been reduced from a felony domestic assault by strangulation charge.”
BREAKING: FBI makes arrest in “murder for hire” plot against Attorney General Pam Bondi after an anarchist put a $45,000 bounty on her. pic.twitter.com/VZdxB0P0vt
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 27, 2025
