San Francisco, June 18 (RHC)-- An active-duty Air Force sergeant with ties to the far-right “Boogaloo” movement has been arrested for killing two law enforcement officials in California in recent weeks. 

Staff Sergeant Steven Carrillo is accused of shooting dead a federal security officer in Oakland during the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in May.  Later, Carrillo killed a deputy sergeant in the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office. 

Carrillo’s lawyer says the Air Force sergeant had served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. 

FBI special agent Jack Bennett told reporters: “To be clear, Carrillo elected to travel to Oakland to conduct this murder and take advantage of a time when this nation was mourning the killing of George Floyd. There is no evidence that these men had any intention to join the demonstration in Oakland, as some in the media have asked. They came to Oakland to kill cops.”

Authorities have also arrested an accomplice of Sergeant Carrillo’s. Earlier this month, federal prosecutors in Las Vegas charged three other men connected to the far-right Boogaloo movement with inciting violence during the recent protests and conspiracy to commit terrorism. The three men also had experience in the U.S. military.