Militant Mask Drop Busted: FBI Arrests Brown Beret Member Who Supplied Riot Gear to LA Protesters
In a high-stakes early morning sting, the FBI arrested Alejandro Theodoro Orellana — the man whose viral mask delivery last week turned heads across the nation — for allegedly aiding violent demonstrators in downtown Los Angeles by supplying them with military-grade “Bionic Shield” face masks.
Orellana, identified as a suspected member of the radical paramilitary group Brown Berets, is now facing federal charges of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorder under 18 USC § 371. The arrest was confirmed by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who emphasized that federal authorities are “moving quickly” to dismantle the networks fueling organized unrest in Los Angeles and beyond.
Video footage from June 9 shows a truck pulling into downtown L.A. and being swarmed by masked protesters who rapidly unloaded crates of high-impact face gear — the kind law enforcement typically reserves for riot control operations. Local reporter Elex Michaelson remarked on the scene: “It certainly seems like gear you’d wear if you’re preparing for conflict with police. Who is funding this?”
The arrest of Orellana sheds new light on the growing infrastructure behind organized street chaos. According to federal sources, the Brown Berets — a Chicano nationalist group with deep ties to far-left revolutionaries — has embedded operatives in several major U.S. cities and may be coordinating logistics and supplies for sustained anti-police demonstrations.
While legacy media outlets downplay the scope of these protests, the federal government is now treating the events in Los Angeles as coordinated insurgency rather than organic activism.
The message from the Department of Justice is loud and clear:
“If you’re supplying the riot — you’re part of the riot.”
