Alfie Oakes ties to Jan. 6, MAGA. Who he is, was there a raid?

Who’s Alfie Oakes? He is a Florida farmer-slash-grocery retailer owner-slash MAGA Trump supporter who’s getting nationwide consideration − once more.

Two days after Election Day 2024, federal and state legislation enforcement automobiles surrounded Oakes’ house in North Naples, Florida, and his enterprise in Immokalee, Florida. Half grocery, half bakery, half butcher store, half bar, Oakes’ $30 million Seed to Desk is the clubhouse for a rising group of Make America Nice Once more Republicans in addition to a magnet for space foodies attracted by natural broccoli and craft beer.

Earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, residents of Lee County and Collier County, Florida, had been conversant in the political firebrand that’s Alfie Oakes. And on the time, he made headlines as an anti-vaxxer, for feedback he made about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter and for submitting an anti-mask lawsuit in his hometown. Oakes additionally organized bus journeys to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, for the Riot − or what he known as “probably the most peaceable lovely demonstration from properly over a million those that I’ve ever witnessed,” in response to the Naples Each day Information, a USA TODAY Community newspaper.