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Cleveland man charged with attempting to kidnap law enforcement officers

The 20-year-old Cleveland man attempted to ambush law enforcement after calling in a fake distress call. He is awaiting trial.

CLEVELAND — On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted a 20-year-old Cleveland man for attempting to kidnap law enforcement officers.

Christian Stanley Ferguson was arrested back on May 8, for a plan that involved ambushing and kidnapping officers when they responded to a fake distress call.

"The primary mission for law enforcement officers and special agents is to protect the public,” FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said in a press release. “Christian Ferguson's primary mission was to kill as many law enforcement personnel as he could, an unfathomable concept."

Smith also went on to thank public, who alerted officials to Ferguson's anti-officer viewpoints, and that, "this information led to the swift disruption of Ferguson's plans and his reckoning with the criminal justice system."

According to the report, Ferguson regularly made violent and hateful social media posts, laying out his plans. Ferguson even went so far as to practice his ambush.

Ferguson now faces trial, though a date has yet to be set. 

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