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Crime · Friday, October 23, 2026

Utah man indicted after a post about a synagogue

The File desk · Oct. 23, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET

Confirmed1 primary sources

Status

The Justice Department release is public. The initial appearance is on the calendar for Friday afternoon. Charges are allegations.
A federal grand jury indicted Skyler AJ Rose, 22, of Ogden, Utah, on Oct. 21. His initial appearance is Friday, Oct. 23, at 1:30 p.m. local time in Salt Lake City, which is 3:30 p.m. Eastern. The release does not label the time zone.
The hearing is in courtroom 8.4 of the Orrin G. Hatch U.S. Courthouse.
Prosecutors say agents found six pipe bombs and one inert device. A post dated Dec. 23, 2025, reads, “I wanna blow up a synagogue.”
The counts are , , and a threat to kill or injure people and destroy a building.
The release also says child sexual abuse material was on the phone. That sentence is an allegation in the same document. It is not the lead count.
Why it matters (Estimate). The appearance is this afternoon. The release does not say whether Rose has a lawyer, or how he will plead. (Estimate.)
Charges are allegations; defendants are presumed innocent.
How we know

Notes

  1. 1.The post quoted in the release is I wanna blow up a synagogue, dated Dec. 23, 2025. Six pipe bombs and one inert device are the release's counts of devices.
  2. 2.Charges are allegations; defendants are presumed innocent.

What is still unknown or disputed

  • The release prints 1:30 p.m. without a zone. The 3:30 p.m. Eastern figure is this desk's conversion from Mountain time.
  • No lawyer is named.

Primary sources

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  1. Source 1

    Utah man charged with hate crime and explosives offenses

    U.S. Department of Justice · October 22, 2026

    The release says Skyler AJ Rose, 22, was indicted Oct. 21 and is due in court Oct. 23 at 1:30 p.m., with no time zone printed.

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/utah-man-charged-attempted-hate-crime-and-other-crimes-after-allegedly-making-online-threats

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