Lindsey Kinney was indicted in April for making death threats on social media against three people, including the Waianae harbor master, in which he threatened to behead them. The threats, allegedly made in January via posts on Instagram, followed a confrontation at the Waianae harbor between the leader of Occupied Forces Hawaii Army, a previously little known Hawaiian sovereignty group and DLNR enforcement officers, including the harbor master. Kinney reported was in the process of affiliating with the Occupied Forces group.

Last month, a second charge was added alleging Kinney later made similar statements in which he threatened “to injure Victim 4, Victim 4’s security staff, and Victim 5, namely a post on Instagram threatening to injure and kill the victims by beheading and other means,” according to a superseding indictment filed on October 20.

Hawaii News Now had reported earlier that the targets identified in the superseding indictment as Victim 4 and 5 were Governor David Ige and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi.

Kinney is confined at Honolulu’s Federal Detention Center pending trial.

Kinney made news just days after the July 2020 indictment and arrest of Michael Miske and ten co-defendants, when he appeared in a Hawaii News Now broadcast interview and said he had declined a $50,000 offer from Miske to kill Jonathan Fraser, who disappeared in July 2016. Kinney said Miske, accompanied by several others, later attempted to kill him in an amnbush at Kualoa Ranch, where Kinney was working on a movie set.

Kinney said the murder attempt was because he was “a loose end” that Miske needed to clean up.

Kinney began meeting with federal investigators days after the ambush at Kualoa, pointing to Miske’s presence at the scene when the shooting took place.

According to documents filed in the Miske case, Kinney was a well-known drug dealer who had supplied quantities drugs for resale to several of Miske’s associates who have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors.

This round of legal problems have likely greatly diminished Kinney’s value as a witness against Mike Miske. However, his revelations have already allowed prosecutors to identify other sources to independently confirm Kinney’s allegations, so his loss as a witness is less important than it might otherwise be.