The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
Officials have identified a man accused of trying to breach the gate at the FBI’s Atlanta headquarters Monday as 48-year-old Ervin Lee Bolling of South Carolina.
Publicly available records show that Bolling lives in Easley, South Carolina, a town just outside Greenville. He works as an insurance broker at Bankers Life, where he has been employed since 2018. His office phone went unanswered Tuesday morning.
Bolling is a U.S. Navy veteran who served as an enlisted submarine warfare specialist for more than 20 years, according to military records. Between 1993 and 2017, he served on four submarines: USS Columbia, USS Albany, USS North Carolina and USS Alaska.
Wired reports:
Social media accounts seemingly associated with Bolling repeatedly boosted QAnon content and interacted with QAnon promoters, including by posting a link to a now-deleted QAnon-associated YouTube channel alongside the comment: “Release the Kraken”—in direct reference to Sidney Powell’s failed legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
On what’s believed to be Bolling’s Facebook account, there were various posts related to anti-vaccine memes as well. The accounts also posted in support of former president Donald Trump. In December 2020, “I love you” was posted in response to a post on X from Trump that falsely claimed the election had been rigged by Democrats.
New from me:
The man accused of ramming his SUV into the FBI headquarters in Atlanta on Monday shared QAnon conspiracies online and said he was looking to join a “good militia”https://t.co/n78fYu9ibI
— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) April 3, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: A U.S. Navy veteran arrested after law enforcement says he drove an SUV into the FBI HQ had ties to multiple QAnon conspiracies accounts.
Reports shared exclusively to @daithaigilbert also suggest that he was also ready to join a militia.https://t.co/pueKOEyCzu
— WIRED (@WIRED) April 3, 2024
UPDATE: Officials identified the man accused of trying to breach the gate at the FBI’s Atlanta headquarters Monday as 48-year-old Ervin Lee Bolling of South Carolina. Here’s what we know about him.
https://t.co/0xuVhqmjgm
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) April 2, 2024