The QAnon believer who allegedly decapitated his dad, showing off the federal employee’s severed head in an online video, had earlier waged an unhinged legal battle against the government over his student loans — claiming he should have been warned he still wouldn’t be able to get a job because he was an “overeducated white man.”
Justin Mohn, 33, was taken into custody Tuesday night on suspicion of first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and possessing an instrument of crime with intent in the killing of his 68-year-old father, Michael Mohn.
The arrest came after he allegedly held up his dad’s head in a YouTube video in which he ranted about him being in hell for an eternity as a traitor to his country” while calling for “militias” to kill other federal officials “on site.”
Mohn had previously filed at least three lawsuits against federal agencies, including the US government, over his student loan debts, online records show.
In one, he claimed that the government “negligently and fraudulently” pushed him to take out student loans between 2010 and 2014 to pay for his education at Penn State University, a court filing shows.
After graduating in 2014 with a degree in agribusiness management, Mohn was “unable to secure a job commensurate with his education or sufficient to enable him to maintain his student loan payments.”
Mohn chalked up his lack of employment to employers’ “perception of him as an overeducated, white male, which led to affirmative action against him whilst providing no benefits,” his appeal of the case claims.
As a result, Mohn was forced to move back to his parent’s home in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania.
After his claims were dismissed, Mohn sought to have the judge assigned to the case removed, claiming they had a personal bias and conflicting personal financial interests.
The judge, identified as Kearney J, noted they denied his third complaint after Mohn failed to pay the filing fees and “swore to having over $2,000 in his bank account and he only spent his money to buy marijuana for recreational and medical use.”
The judge responded to Mohn’s claims by saying they were “speculative and largely inaccurate” and chalked up his complaints to him being a “disappointed college graduate.”
Middletown Township police were called to “a report of a deceased male” just after 7 p.m. Tuesday, and found the remains of a man in the upstairs bathroom of a home on the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, police said.
Police took Mohn, who is believed to be the victim’s youngest son, into custody. Authorities say he shared graphic footage of his father’s severed head on YouTube.
The 14-minute clip reviewed by The Post before it was taken down shows a man lifting up the severed head — which he claims belongs to “a federal employee of over 20 years and my father” — in a bloody plastic bag to show the camera.
“He is now in hell for an eternity as a traitor to his country,” Mohn says to the camera before going on an unhinged rant against the government in line with QAnon conspiracy theories, calling for “militias” across the US to unite and kill federal officials “on site.”
The video, titled “Mohn’s Militia – Call to Arms for American Patriots,” was posted to YouTube around 5:30 p.m. and appears to have been recorded in a bedroom where Mohn seems to be reading from a written manifesto on his computer screen.
In the footage, Mohn claims he is the commander of America’s network of militias as he rants against migrants, the Biden administration, the LBGTQ community, Black Lives Matter and “far-left woke mobs,” while calling for the slaughter and public execution of FBI agents, IRS employees, US Marshals, federal judges, border control officers and more “for betraying their country.”
Investigators declined to comment on the video’s content or the nature of the remains found inside the home.
Mohn was arraigned at 4 a.m. Wednesday and denied bail, according to a court docket.