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Joshua Plotner AKA “Walter ID/OR” of Craigmont, Idaho

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In June 2022, 31 members of Patriot Front were mass arrested after it appeared they had been planning to start a riot at a pride parade in Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho. This is where we were able to identify the subject of this article, Joshua Plotner. It appeared that Plotner was responsible for bailing out the 31 Patriot Front members a day after the arrests took place. A further dive into Plotners background reveals that he uses the pseudonym “Walter ID” within the organization. For a short time before moving to Idaho , Plotner also used the alias “Walter OR” due to his original residence being Portland, OR.

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Richard Jacob Jessop AKA “Oscar ID” of Idaho Falls, ID

Richard Jessop of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was arrested on June 11th, 2022, with 30 other members of Patriot Front in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, as they were on their way to intimidate a local Pride event. He was recognized as “Oscar ID” on the Patriot Front member’s gallery. Patriot Front members choose pseudonyms when they join the fascist group and in January 2022, Patriot Front’s private chat server was leaked by Unicorn Riot. Here are Richard Jessop’s messages that he wrote as “Oscar ID.”

 

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Winston Worth Durham AKA “Marcus ID/WA” of Genesee, ID

Winston Worth Durham was arrested on Conspiracy/Riot charges in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho along with several dozen other members of Patriot Front on June 11, 2022. After posting bail, public information listed him as living in Genesee, ID., while local media reported him as enrolled in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program of Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He as identified as “Marcus ID” or “Marcus WA” after matching his arrest photo to messages and photos from the January 2022 Unicorn Riot leak of the Patriot Front chat server.

Local media also reported that Winston Durham was enlisted as a cadet in the Idaho National Guard as of February 2019 and assigned to a field artillery unit. After his arrest, a spokesman for the Idaho National Guard said that his “file was flagged” and that “That’s another way of saying he’s barred from any favorable personnel action while this is underway.”