That Steve Saari (one of the stories in the OP) seems to get around:

U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Steve Saari from Duluth, Minnesota of Echo Company 2 battalion, 7th Marines poses for combat footage (2007): https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/marine-lance-c...

Steven Paul Saari Jr. of Duluth pleads guilty to making bomb threats (2013 or 2017): https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/charter-cable-custome...

Steve Saari is detained and maltreated by ICE (2026): OP, The Intercept, Democracy Now, etc.

Super interesting that archive.org does not have the Duluth News Tribune article archived. So we actually do not know if that article was in fact published in 2013 - search page actually has the link as "2017". Very interesting to read in the Duluth story that:

"According to the criminal complaint, Saari made telephone threats to Charter Communications in Rochester, Minn., and Duluth on July 10, 2012. A Charter supervisor said Saari said something to the effect of, "I guess I'm going to have to deal with the Duluth office by kicking down the door and blowing it up."

"When police arrived, Saari was in a black Jeep outside the building. Police knew Saari was a military veteran and that he had a permit to carry a handgun. They cordoned off the area -- blocking off Garfield Avenue -- and contacted Saari on his phone. He complied with instructions to get out of the vehicle and surrender.

Saari has since given up his permit to carry a handgun."