Blood-drinking white nationalist inmate, released due to coronavirus, back in jail after stalking wife
A white nationalist who had run for the US Senate and claimed he drank blood has been jailed again after he was accused of stalking his wife less than a month after he was granted release because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, had been released from a South Carolina jail late in March after a judge granted him bond over concerns he raised about the outbreak, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
He had initially been arrested in December over allegations that he had choked his wife, held a gun to her head, and forced her to drive from South Carolina to Florida, and the terms of his bond mandated that he not make contact with her.
However, his wife contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Office this past week to report that he had been using a third party to contact her daily since he was freed and demanding to see their children.
She said he was contacting her through multiple phone numbers, including two belonging to his kids from a former relationship. By doing so, he not only broke the conditions of his bond but also a restraining order she had obtained against him.
This past Monday, April 20, she alleged that he sent a text message to their daughter in which he ordered her to bring their kids to Dickson Azalea Park -- "or else."
She said he had also confronted her at the same park on April 7, and since then, had repeatedly contacted their children and made comments to them about her needing to bring them over to see him.
"I’m going to plan to see you at 4, if she doesn’t bring you to the park I assume she wants to fight," he wrote in one of the messages, according to an affidavit filed by Deputy Nicholas Wacker.
The wife also described an incident where she had brought the kids to the park and left them with Invictus for an hour. She said when she returned to pick them up, she had a conversation with someone at the park, at which point he made his daughter take a picture of her with the other man and told the girl "your mother is a whore."
She estimated that he had contacted her more than 20 times since he was released from jail.
When deputies went through the 36-year-old's phone, they found that he had sent messages "indicating to other individuals that he wanted [his wife] found." He had sent pictures of her vehicles and license plate and had seemingly been driving in circles in the area of Orlando where she lived.
It was a pattern of abusive behavior that had defined the marriage. In a statement she read in court in February, she said Invictus had "abused me more times than I can count."
"To conceal the bruises from the public, he regularly punched me in my stomach and in my head so hard it caused me to see flashes of light," she had said. "He locked me in a bedroom and wouldn’t let me out for days. He nearly fractured my wrist. … He threw me on the floor, stepped on me, and screamed vile insults I will never forget."
Invictus had first made national headlines when he challenged Marco Rubio's Senate seat as a Libertarian candidate in 2016. During the campaign, he had claimed he slaughtered a goat and drank its blood as part of a pagan ritual.
He was also a featured marcher for the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, which ultimately turned violent and resulted in one death and more than 30 injuries.
He is currently being held at the Orange County Jail.