A blood-drinking white nationalist and former US Senate candidate who was recently sprung from jail amid concerns of the coronavirus was jailed in Florida on Tuesday for allegedly stalking his wife, according to a report.
Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, was granted bond by a judge in late March and released from a South Carolina lockup, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The Orlando-based lawyer was busted in January on a warrant from South Carolina and charged with kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a firearm used during a crime.
He had been held without bond for allegedly choking his wife, holding a gun to her head and forcing her to drive from South Carolina to Florida, according to the news outlet.
Invictus’ latest arrest came after his wife called the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to report that he had been in contact with her since his release, in violation of the terms of his bond and a separate restraining order, the Sentinel reported.
She told authorities that he had been using a third party to contact her and demanding to see their kids, adding that he also reached her through several phone numbers, including two belonging to his kids from a prior relationship.
On Monday, she said Invictus texted their daughter and ordered his wife to bring their children to Dickson Azalea Park ― “or else.”
“I’m going to plan to see you at 4, if she doesn’t bring you to the park I assume she wants to fight,” Invictus said in one message, according to an affidavit cited by the paper.
On one occasion, the wife said she left the kids with Invictus at the park for an hour. When she went to pick them up, she spoke with a man at the park and Invictus told his daughter to snap a picture of her mother with the other man, according to the affidavit.
“Augustus then told their daughter ‘your mother is a whore,’” Deputy Nicholas Wacker wrote.
In February, Invictus’ wife said in a statement read in court that her husband of six years “has abused me more times than I can count.”
“To conceal the bruises from the public, he regularly punched me in my stomach and in my head so hard it caused me to see flashes of light,” she said.
“He locked me in a bedroom and wouldn’t let me out for days. He nearly fractured my wrist. … He threw me on the floor, stepped on me, and screamed vile insults I will never forget.”
Invictus garnered national media attention during his unsuccessful bid to challenge Marco Rubio as a Libertarian candidate in 2016.
During the failed campaign, he claimed he slaughtered a goat and drank its blood as part of a pagan ritual.
Invictus was also credited by white nationalist Richard Spencer with laying the foundation for the deadly racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
He has denied affiliation with Spencer and the racists at the rally, but Spencer credited him with drafting the “tenets” behind the rally.
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