{"id":461304,"date":"2026-02-06T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461304\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:17:10","slug":"swords-axes-seized-as-man-charged-with-threatening-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461304\/","title":{"rendered":"Swords, axes seized as man charged with threatening politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a> man will appear in court today after allegedly threatening multiple federal politicians on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The threatening messages were posted on X between December 10 and December 15 last year.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffAustralian Federal Police allegedly linked the account to a 39-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/009b678d-5786-423d-b76c-6df12feb70ed.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Police seized swords and axes from the home of a man accused of threatening federal politicians. (Australian Federal Police)<\/p>\n<p>Officers raided a unit at Woodridge in Logan, Queensland, on December 19 last year.<\/p>\n<p>They seized swords, axes, and electronic files.<\/p>\n<p>Police will allege the records of the social media threats were found on the man&#8217;s mobile phone and desktop computer.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffHe was charged with one count of using a carriage service to menace or harass.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, he could face a maximum of five years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>He was granted bail and is expected in court today.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland man will appear in court today after allegedly threatening multiple federal politicians on social media. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-461304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}