Anonymous member arrested during online chat after threat against FBI

13.09.2012
Dallas law enforcement authorities have arrested self-professed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown in what appears to have been a dramatic raid of his apartment late Wednesday night.

Barrett was having a live online video chat session with a few others when law enforcement officers can be heard storming into the room and shouting at him to comply with their commands to submit to his arrest.

Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown was arrested by Dallas law enforcement authorities while in the middle of an online video chat.

Though a woman who was with him at the time of his arrest shuts the camera off a few seconds into the raid, the audio continued to capture the events as a law enforcement officer orders a yelling Brown to put his hands down, presumably to be handcuffed.

Another individual, with his face covered by a white scarf, pops up in a window on the chat screen and can be heard expressing his incredulity at the unfolding events.

A spokeswoman for the Dallas County Sheriff's office confirmed the arrest and said Brown was booked into the county jail at around 11 p.m. CT and has since been transferred to an FBI facility. A spokeswoman from the FBI field office in Dallas said the agency had no comment on the arrest. In a Twitter , Anonymous noted that Barrett has been in FBI custody since early this morning.