Case 9:24-mj-08441-RMM Record 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/16/2024 Web page 3 of 8
AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT
OF CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
follows:
Your affiant, Mark A. Thomas, being first duly sworn, does hereby depose and situation as
Creation
1. I’m hired as a Particular Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”),
and feature been so hired for about twenty years. In my tasks as a Particular Agent, I’m
assigned to the FBI’s Miami Ground Place of business, West Palm Seashore Resident Company. I’m these days
assigned to the Joint Terrorism Activity Power. As a Particular Agent, I’m approved via regulation or via a
executive company to have interaction in or take care of the prevention, detention, investigation, or
prosecution of violations of Federal legal regulation.
2.
I create this Affidavit in assistance of a legal criticism charging RYAN WESLEY
ROUTH (hereinafter, “ROUTH”), with ownership of a firearm via a convicted felon, in violation
of Name 18, United States Code, Division 922(g)(1), and ownership and receipt of a firearm with an
obliterated serial quantity, in violation of Name 18, United States Code, Division 922(ok).
3. The information contained on this Affidavit come from my private wisdom, coaching,
and enjoy, in addition to knowledge acquired right through the investigation from alternative contributors of
regulation enforcement. As a result of this Affidavit is submitted for the restricted objective of acquiring a
legal criticism and arrest warrant, it does now not comprise the entire information recognized to me concerning the
investigation, however in lieu, handiest the ones information I imagine are essential to determine possible motive for the
offenses described above.
