But Coleman received credit for time already spent in custody following his February 4 arrest, meaning the sentence will not require him to return to jail.
The court also ordered Coleman to continue receiving mental health treatment and participate in required evaluations. He must surrender weapons seized during the investigation and pay $550 in fines and fees.
Coleman is barred from possessing firearms, other weapons, or dangerous animals while subject to the conditions imposed by the court.
The plea agreement dramatically reduced the number of accusations Coleman faced.
Prosecutors dismissed 13 additional charges, including first-degree attempted domestic terrorism, second-degree domestic terrorism, attempted assault, and several allegations involving the manufacture or possession of destructive devices.
Coleman initially faced 13 charges after authorities arrested him. A grand jury subsequently added two domestic terrorism counts, raising the total number of charges to 15.
The investigation began after people acquainted with Coleman, including the parent of one of his roommates, contacted authorities about statements he allegedly made in early 2026.
Coleman, who was 18 at the time, had reportedly discussed retaliating against federal immigration authorities following a January incident in Portland in which federal officers shot two people.
Investigators said Coleman communicated his intentions through Discord and circulated a document authorities characterized as a manifesto.
His messages described anger toward ICE and an intention to use violence against its personnel.
Coleman wrote that he was “sick and tired of it” and intended to acquire a gun so he could “actively kill any ICE agents killing or kidnapping civilians.”
Authorities said his ambitions went beyond an isolated attack.
Coleman discussed establishing an organization called the Cascadia Rangers or Cascadia Rangers Coalition and creating a separatist political entity known as Cascadia.
According to the allegations, Coleman also talked about traveling to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation in an effort to recruit additional people.
One of the most disturbing portions of the alleged scheme involved what Coleman said he would bring with him as evidence of his commitment: the severed heads of ICE agents.
Court records and a probable cause affidavit outlined an alleged plan in which Coleman would surveil ICE personnel leaving the federal facility on Macadam Avenue in Portland.
Investigators said he contemplated following the officers while equipped with camouflage and night-vision gear.
Authorities alleged Coleman intended to deploy incendiary weapons, including Molotov cocktails, during the attacks. The plan also allegedly included using a hatchet or tactical axes to decapitate victims afterward and retain their heads as trophies.
The investigation uncovered evidence suggesting Coleman had begun taking steps toward acquiring equipment and practicing techniques relevant to the alleged plot.
People who knew Coleman told investigators they had assisted him in gathering empty glass bottles.
Coleman subsequently acknowledged filling bottles with sand and practicing throwing them. Investigators said the bottles were intended to eventually be converted into incendiary devices.
At approximately the same time, Coleman was making installment payments toward an AR-style rifle that was expected to be delivered around February 5.
Police arrested him before that happened.
Officers with the St. Helens Police Department took Coleman into custody during a traffic stop at the assisted-living facility where he was employed.
Authorities then searched his vehicle.
According to a Department of Homeland Security statement, investigators discovered bottles containing sand, surveillance equipment, tactical axes, military-style knives, shovels and materials consistent with constructing Molotov cocktails, including an accelerant.
Coleman’s subsequent statements to investigators became another major component of the prosecution’s case.
He acknowledged planning violence against federal officers and told investigators that, had he obtained the rifle, he would have followed through with the plan, according to the case materials.
Coleman later sought to distance himself from at least one of the most gruesome aspects of the alleged scheme. He said some of his statements about decapitating agents had been made out of anger and maintained that he did not genuinely intend to carry out that portion.
His guilty plea ultimately concerned the destructive devices rather than the dismissed terrorism allegations.
In his plea petition, Coleman admitted that he “unlawfully and knowingly assembled, produced, or manufactured two destructive devices.”
The agreement brought the state prosecution to an end without a trial on the far more serious allegations originally lodged against him.
Despite the disturbing conduct described by investigators and prosecutors, Coleman will now serve his sentence outside jail under supervision.
He had spent roughly seven months in custody by the time of sentencing. Because Judge Clarke credited that detention against the 75-day jail term imposed as part of the plea agreement, Coleman faces no additional incarceration under the state sentence.
The outcome leaves Coleman with three years of supervised probation, treatment and evaluation requirements, financial penalties, and strict prohibitions on possessing weapons.
It also means the attempted domestic terrorism charges and the other counts dismissed through the plea agreement will not proceed to trial.
A case that began with allegations of surveillance, explosives, an impending rifle purchase and gruesome threats against ICE personnel has therefore ended with two felony convictions—and no additional time behind bars.
