Officers investigating a 21-year-old Ogden man who allegedly made violent, antisemitic threats online two days before Christmas ultimately found six finished pipe bombs throughout the man’s home, another bomb in progress on his desk and materials to make at least four more, according to charging documents.
Police also said they located two AK-style rifles in the man’s room on Dec. 23 — “along with a significant quantity of ammunition” — that were “placed in such a position to make them readily accessible and for immediate use near a bag with one of the pipe bombs,” the document states. Officers said they found a .22-caliber rifle “hidden” in a shed with “ammunition and several different bags containing tourniquets and gauze with other survivalist and camping gear.”
Skyler Rose was arrested the same day officers searched his home and was booked into the Weber County jail just after midnight on Christmas Eve.
Prosecutors later charged him in 2nd District Court with 11 felonies, including six counts of manufacturing, possessing, selling or using a weapon of mass destruction, four counts of possessing or removing an explosive device and a single count of threat of terrorism. Rose also faces four class A misdemeanors, including possession of a dangerous weapon with criminal intent and reckless endangerment.
Ogden police began investigating Rose on Dec. 23 after officers received a tip from the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office. They arrived at Rose’s home that day. There, Rose’s family let officers inside, charging documents state, and investigators soon saw the unfinished pipe bomb on Rose’s desk, near a computer screen that was open to a “Jewish-related webpage.”
Charging documents noted that the explosive materials used to make pipe bombs are unstable and could explode, endangering others in the house, including two adults and two children.
(Ogden Police Department) Police Chief Jake Sube speaks during a Dec. 24, 2025, news conference about the arrest of 21-year-old Skyler Rose. Rose, who was being investigated after reports he'd made antisemitic threats online, has been charged with multiple felonies after police found pipe bombs in his home.
After the arrest, Ogden Police Chief Jake Sube said in a Dec. 24 news conference that his department has been in contact with the area’s Jewish community.
“Their safety, their peace of mind and their ability to worship freely without fear is of paramount importance to us,” he said, “and we will continue that communication and partnership as we move forward.”
Sube said that after Rose’s arrest, there is “no ongoing threat to the public or to the Jewish community at this time.”
No ongoing threat, police say
According to charging documents, someone reported to authorities that a user on the social media platform X had posted repeated threatening, antisemitic statements, including: “I wanna blow up a synagogue. 😎," “As an American myself I want to crush the Jews into dust” and “Death to all Jews I will devote my life to killing you! heil hitler!”
The tip stated that the online threats were made by someone who lived at specific home in Ogden. When officers arrived at that house, Rose’s family confirmed that the account posting the threats belong to Rose, according to charging documents.
Sube said the statements did not denote a specific target and that Rose was “acting alone.”
“The threats under investigation were directed toward the Jewish community and Jewish houses of worship,” he said, “and it would be premature and inaccurate to characterize them beyond what the evidence currently supports.”
There is one synagogue in Ogden — Congregation Brith Sholem, Utah’s oldest, continuously active synagogue.
As of Saturday, Ogden police spokesperson Rees Bockwoldt said there were no updates in the case.
History of weapon making
Prosecutors asked that Rose be held without bail ahead of trial, arguing that there is “substantial reason to believe” that he “poses a clear and present danger to the community.”
They noted he was already under the court’s supervision in connection with an earlier Justice Court case in which they said Rose used a pipe to build a gun and fired it near homes, “causing alarm.”
A probable cause statement from that arrest stated that someone called 911 after seeing Rose walk into a field on May 20 acting “very suspicious and ‘creepy.’”
The caller reported saying “hi” to Rose, but he ignored them. The caller then heard a gunshot and called police.
“I thought I was going to get shot,” the caller said, according to the probable cause statement.
Rose pleaded no contest to related misdemeanor offenses in October. The plea was held in abeyance until he completed 18 months of probation, including finishing a firearm safety course, paying a $400 fine and not committing any additional crimes.
“[Rose] clearly violated the terms of this supervision,” prosecutors wrote, “and has a history with dangerous manufacturing [of] weapons that is not isolated and severely escalating.”
Judge Matthew J. Hansen ultimately ordered Rose be held without bail.
Rose is scheduled for a court appearance Monday. The docket lists no attorney assigned to Rose, and therefore The Salt Lake Tribune was unable to reach out for comment.