Second man pleads guilty in plot to bomb Democrats’ California headquarters

A California man has pleaded guilty to multiple offences as part of a plot to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in Sacramento after Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.

Napa resident Ian Benjamin Rogers was charged last summer for his part in the scheme alongside his co-conspirator, Jarrod Copeland, who has already accepted a plea deal.

According to law enforcement, the two men exchanged messages in November 2020 that showed them plotting an attack to “hit the enemy in the mouth”, with Mr Rogers specifically telling Mr Copeland that “I want to blow up a democrat (sic) building bad”.