A smiling mugshot has been launched of a person who allegedly killed his father earlier than exhibiting his severed head in a YouTube video.

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Justin Mohn, 32, from Pennsylvania, has been charged with first-degree homicide and abusing a corpse after police discovered his father decapitated within the toilet of his residence in Bucks County on Tuesday night time.

In the YouTube clip, Mohn is seen carrying gloves and holding his father's head in a plastic bag. Later within the video, the top could be seen in a cooking pot. The video has since been taken down.

Mohn then denounced his father as a traitor for being a longstanding US authorities worker, and referred to as for the dying of all federal officers, NBC News reported.

It added that Mohn espoused right-wing conspiracy theories and spouted them within the 14-minute-long video which was eliminated due to "strict policies prohibiting graphic violence and violent extremism", in accordance with a YouTube assertion.

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Authorities are investigating the video.

Mohn was reportedly very lively on social media, the place he promoted his self-released music and books, together with dystopian science-fiction.

Police mentioned he was arrested about 100 miles away in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.

Captain Pete Feeney of the Middletown Township Police Department mentioned: "We didn't know where he was going and what his intentions were when he left here."

"Fortunately, we were able to get a location based on his cellphone."

Police took him into custody, Mr Feeney mentioned.

Mohn was additionally charged with possessing an instrument of crime with intent.

He was denied bail and is scheduled for a listening to on 8 February.

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