Sheriff’s investigators track down Lincoln man who posted fake antifa ad

The Craigslist ad made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook.

Sandwiched between the heading “Protesters Needed” and a map of downtown Lincoln, someone was claiming to be antifa and willing to pay as many as 1,000 people $25 per hour to protest in Lincoln and Omaha.

“Basically we want to cause as much chaos and destruction as possible,” the ad said.

On June 1, Curtis Reha, an investigator with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, learned about the ad and started looking into it.

The sheriff’s office discovered the man who posted it was a 33-year-old Lincoln man who is a registered Republican

Full article over at The Fremont Tribune

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