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Charles Bronson Ingram, 47, of North Bloomfield was sentenced recently in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to the amount of time he had already served locked up plus three years of probation and restrictions on his computer usage for posting threatening remarks about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and others on YouTube.
Ingram pleaded guilty in April to influencing and intimidating a federal official by threat and interstate threatening communications.
Judge Charles E. Fleming imposed the standard conditions of supervision, such as Ingram staying in touch with his probation officer and notifying his probation officer if he is questioned by law enforcement. Ingram is not allowed to leave the federal judicial district where he is living without first getting permission from the court or probation officer.
He also has special conditions to follow during probation, such as participating in an approved substance abuse testing and / or substance abuse treatment program, undergoing a mental health evaluation, and / or participating in mental health treatment and taking all mental health medications as prescribed by his physician.
He is also prohibited from accessing any computer, online computer service, internet service provider or other public or private computer network or service at any location without prior written approval of court or probation officials.
He must consent to the U.S. Pretrial Services and Probation office conducting periodic, unannounced examinations of any computers he possesses and consent to monitoring equipment being installed on such computers to prevent access to particular materials, according to court documents.
On Feb. 26, after Ingram was named in a federal criminal complaint, a magistrate in U.S. District Court in Youngstown ordered Ingram held in detention.
At that hearing, FBI agent David Brown testified that Ingram admitted to the agent to posting numerous messages on YouTube that threatened ICE agents and others in January.
At the end of the hearing, the magistrate bound over the case to a federal grand jury.
Court documents state that on Feb. 4, agents conducted a search warrant at Ingram's home, finding eight firearms and a crossbow. Brown testified at Ingram's hearing that when he interviewed Ingram, Ingram admitted to writing the posts. When Brown asked Ingram if he "stood by the posts," Ingram said "1,000 percent," Brown said.
Brown stated in court documents that he determined that Ingram had no criminal record and had lived in North Bloomfield about 15 years.
Ingram's indictment states that his crimes took place Dec. 23, 2025, through about Jan. 18, 2026, in the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.
The indictment alleges that Ingram threatened to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers, namely ICE agents, with intent to impede, intimidate and interfere with them while they were engaged in the performance of their official duties.
An affidavit Brown filed in Ingram's case states that Brown was able to trace messages to Ingram through Ingram's Google account. Brown was able to view Ingram's YouTube profile picture, and it showed what Brown said appeared to be a bloody image of President Donald Trump.