{"id":348204,"date":"2026-06-24T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:34:14","slug":"influencer-jake-lang-released-on-bond-ordered-to-leave-texas-within-24-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348204\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Jake Lang released on bond, ordered to leave Texas within 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pardoned January 6th rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang was released from the Collin County Jail on a reduced $250,000 bond Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lang faces a felony terroristic threat charge for allegedly threatening on video to kill someone outside a recent high-profile courthouse trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a condition of his bond, Lang has 24 hours to leave the state of Texas and is legally banned from returning except for mandatory court appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">COLLIN COUNTY, Texas &#8211; Jake Lang walked out of jail this morning as he spoke to one of our photographers about his terroristic threat charge and ban from the State of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Who Is Jake Lang? Influencer released on bond<img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Jake Lang&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9bbdba897247cd60e92afe6437868a0c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Far-right influencer and pardoned January 6th rioter, Jake Lang, was seen walking out of Collin County Jail on Tuesday, after multiple arrests this month related to the Karmelo Anthony trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lang\u2019s most recent charge was a felony terroristic threat. According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by FOX 4, Lang was identified on video outside Anthony\u2019s trial, saying he\u2019d kill Karmelo Anthony with a shot to the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Why am I the one being mistreated by the justice system?&#8221; Lang asked. &#8220;The judicial tyrants have gone drunk with power\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lang was charged by the Texas Department of Public Safety. It was working with the Texas Fusion Center, proactively monitoring threats seen on social media related to the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the threat outside the Karmelo Anthony trial<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f0e7d23c45c2d17611bcb4f8c51dd099.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Criminal defense attorney and former Collin County prosecutor, Rebekah Perlstein, is not connected to this case. A judge reduced Lang\u2019s $1 million bond to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This wasn\u2019t a, you know, \u2018Hey, if I see you outside you know we can tangle.\u2019 It was \u2018I\u2019m going to take a headshot and end it right there\u2019 and [Lang], according to the PC affidavit, doubled down,&#8221; said Perlstein.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b7cdeb2d73621ba24feaef7d2c3b733b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That initial $1 million bond is higher than some people receive for a murder charge, but Perlstein says Lang\u2019s past likely plays a role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He had been told to stay away from the Collin County courthouse,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On June 2nd, \u00a0Lang was charged with criminal trespassing after admitting to climbing a fence to the site of the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conditions of Lang\u2019s bond prohibited him from going within 200 feet of the Collin County courthouse for 30 days, but two days later, he was back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He hadn\u2019t been deterred by being told to stay away or to back off,&#8221; said Perlstein. &#8220;You had people gathering outside the courthouse every day, you had a lot of people who were, you know, very emotionally charged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why was Jake Lang banned from Texas?<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/365887b709a97dba0bc07acee0ea3392.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Big picture view<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For now, Lang is banned from the state of Texas unless he appears in court or meets with his attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I\u2019m not able to stay in Texas right now. I have 24 hours to vacate the most free and most conservative and most patriotic state in the country. So I have to get out of here,&#8221; said Lang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If convicted on the terroristic threat charge, Lang faces up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lang is also facing felony charges in Minnesota for allegedly destroying an anti-ICE sculpture on the state capitol grounds.\u00a0He previously spent 4 years in prison for attacking police during the capitol riot. He was released after a pardon from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article was provided by FOX 4&#8217;s David Sentendrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Pardoned January 6th rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang was released from the Collin County Jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[960,34604,118547,10079,27,29,28,49085],"class_list":["post-348204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-collin-county","tag-influencer","tag-jake-lang","tag-terroristic-threat","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-state-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}