A 31-year-old Oklahoma man who fired shots at FBI agents during a standoff at his home and spent months posting threats to kill federal officers on YouTube has pleaded guilty in federal court. Taylor Ryan Prigmore of McLoud pleaded guilty on Monday, November 2, to a four-count superseding information, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Oklahoma announced.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
The four counts cover threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers, communicating a threat, assaulting federal officers, and brandishing a firearm in the furtherance of a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester announced the plea. At sentencing, Prigmore faces up to life in federal prison and fines of up to $1,000,000 (one million dollars — yaani about ten lakh dollars). No sentencing date has been announced.
Source: News 9 (Oklahoma City)
Threats posted over eight months
According to court records cited by prosecutors, a YouTube account belonging to Prigmore posted multiple comments on videos between May 9, 2025, and January 17, 2026, threatening to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and others. Prosecutors said he also threatened to kill law enforcement officers who came to his residence, stating that he wanted to kill “as many as possible.”
The January standoff in McLoud
On January 19, 2026, FBI agents went to arrest Prigmore at his residence in McLoud, a small community east of Oklahoma City. During a brief standoff, prosecutors said, he fired multiple rounds at the federal agents. No one was injured, and he was taken into custody. In his plea, Prigmore admitted that he willfully threatened to murder federal law enforcement officers, sent another threat to injure others, and intentionally assaulted and interfered with federal officers with a firearm, which he brandished.
Prigmore pleaded guilty on November 2, 2026 to four federal counts. He admitted the YouTube threats and the January 19 shooting at FBI agents. He faces up to life in prison and up to $1 million in fines; a sentencing date has not been set.
From a 100-year indictment to a guilty plea
The case has moved through several stages this year. A federal grand jury indicted Prigmore on February 17, 2026, on heavier charges led by attempted murder of federal law enforcement officers, which at that stage carried up to 100 years in prison and fines of up to $2,250,000 if he had been convicted on all counts. Monday's guilty plea was entered instead on a four-count superseding information — a charging document a defendant can plead to without a new grand jury vote — covering the threats, the assault on the officers and the brandished firearm.
Who investigated and prosecuted the case
The FBI Oklahoma City Field Office's Joint Terrorism Task Force investigated the case, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Arvo Mikkanen and Matt Dillon are prosecuting. The Justice Department said the case is part of the nationwide initiative under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, a White House-directed interagency effort aimed at political violence.
Why this matters beyond Oklahoma
For Awaaz Punjab's readers — including Punjabi truckers and immigrant families who deal with federal officers at highway stops, weigh stations and enforcement operations across the United States — the case is a clear marker of where the legal line sits. Threatening a federal officer online is itself a federal crime, and this prosecution shows investigators tracing anonymous-style online comments back to a named defendant through court process, then treating shots fired at arresting agents as among the most serious charges in federal law. None of the people threatened or shot at in this case was a member of the public going about ordinary business; the targets were the officers themselves, and no one was hurt — facts the court will weigh alongside the threats when it sentences him.
What happens next
Prigmore now awaits sentencing in the Western District of Oklahoma. A federal judge will set the date and will determine the sentence under federal law and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. Until then, the plea stands as a conviction on all four counts; the earlier indictment's attempted-murder posture has been overtaken by the plea agreement the government announced on Monday.