A right-wing influencer who founded the now-defunct Rise Above Movement white nationalist group is being extradited from Romania to California to face charges for his role in organizing violent responses to 2017 protests against fascism and Confederate imagery, the Guardian reports.

Robert Rundo will face charges in a federal court in Los Angeles along with two co-defendants, Robert Boman and Tyler Laube, for training and organizing RAM into a militant group formed to commit violence against groups they objected to.  As protests against Donald Trump’s nascent administration and public memorials honoring slaveholders swept the country, Rundo aimed his members at the demonstrations in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley.  The trio face charges of violating multiple anti-riot statutes; Boman and Laube face additional charges for actually participating in the riots.  In 2019, RAM co-founder Benjamin Daley and two other members were convicted for their actions during the 2017 Charlottesville riot that left Heather Heyer dead.

Rundo is no stranger to extradition:  in 2018, he was returned to the United States by El Salvador after trying to travel to Ukraine.  Later that same year, he surfaced in London, where he claims he was turned away from a flight to Ukraine at Heathrow after his name appeared on a US no-fly list.  After the original charges were dismissed by a judge in 2019, Rundo fled the United States to Romania prior to the charges being reinstated on appeal.