{"id":138284,"date":"2026-01-18T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138284\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:40:18","slug":"california-man-allegedly-threatened-to-blow-up-disneyland-before-j-d-vances-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138284\/","title":{"rendered":"California Man Allegedly Threatened to Blow Up Disneyland Before J.D. Vance&#8217;s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260117_a2614116ada94380af26876e6e4d8ad0\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c1db13d3-ff8c-46d8-aa91-92804d3ea5c7\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a2614116ada94380af26876e6e4d8ad0_md.jpg\" alt=\"jd vance danger disneyland main getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A California man has been arrested after he wrote on social media that explosives had been placed in Disneyland ahead of Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jd-vance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.D. Vance<\/a>&#8216;s visit last year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; federal authorities announced Friday they&#8217;ve arrested 22-year-old Marco Antonio Aguayo after he allegedly threatened Vance&#8217;s life on July 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President JD Vance in Bayou Country at Disneyland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jm6XyQ7L7Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Jm6XyQ7L7Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt (@DisneyScoopGuy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DisneyScoopGuy\/status\/1944073124049306014?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 12, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DisneyScoopGuy\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@DisneyScoopGuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the VP visited and stayed at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, feds claim Aguayo wrote three messages online &#8230; one of which read, &#8220;Pipe bombs have been placed in preparation for J.D. Vance\u2019s arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He also allegedly wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s time for us to rise up and you will be a witness to it\u201d and \u201cGood luck finding all of them on time there will be bloodshed tonight and we will bathe in the blood of corrupt politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement moved swiftly, according to the Department of Justice &#8230; and they say they confronted Aguayo at his home that day and observed the alleged messages he wrote on his phone.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has charged Aguayo with making threats against the President and successors to the Presidency &#8230; which carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-16\/anaheim-man-accused-of-threatening-to-place-pipe-bombs-at-disneyland-ahead-of-jd-vances-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a> cited the arrest affidavit &#8230; which states Aguayo told authorities &#8220;he intended it merely as a joke to provoke attention and laughter.&#8221; Hilarious? Not particularly &#8212; though it did get a lot of attention &#8230; from the feds, that is.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260117_1c60ce0b6b794440b0ce693393be3045\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:c1db13d3-ff8c-46d8-aa91-92804d3ea5c7\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1c60ce0b6b794440b0ce693393be3045_md.jpg\" alt=\"jd vance disney tmz\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We told you all about VP Vance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/12\/jd-vance-disneyland-tiana-bayou-ride-anaheim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit to The Happiest Place on Earth<\/a> with his wife, Usha, and their kiddos &#8230; and, we even shared pictures of him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/13\/jd-vance-family-has-lunch-pirates-of-the-caribbean-ride-disney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dining at the Blue Bayou<\/a>, located inside the &#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean&#8221; ride.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful what you write on the internet, kids!<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California man has been arrested after he wrote on social media that explosives had been placed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-138284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}