{"id":140039,"date":"2026-01-19T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140039\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:11","slug":"anaheim-man-arrested-suspected-of-threatening-vice-president-j-d-vance-during-disneyland-visit-last-summer-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140039\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim man arrested, suspected of threatening Vice President J.D.\u00a0Vance during Disneyland visit last summer \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 An Anaheim man is facing a federal charge after allegedly promising \u201cbloodshed\u201d at Disneyland during a visit by Vice President J.D. Vance<\/a> and his family last summer, according to court papers obtained Friday.<\/p>\n

Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22, is accused of making threatening comments on Disney\u2019s Instagram page on July 12, 2025, the same day\u00a0Vance\u00a0and his family visited the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cPipe bombs have been placed in preparation for J.D.\u00a0Vance\u2019s arrival,\u201d Aguayo allegedly wrote, according to a federal complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Aguayo is charged with one count of making a threat against the president and successors to the presidency, the document shows. Aguayo was arrested Friday and is expected to make his initial court appearance Tuesday in Santa Ana federal court.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors contend Aguayo posted two other comments: \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

According to the complaint, Aguayo initially denied making the posts when confronted by Secret Service agents, claiming his account had been hacked.<\/p>\n

Later, however, he admitted making the threatening statements, saying he intended it merely as a joke to provoke attention and laughter, and forgot to delete what he had written, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case is a horrific reminder of the dangers public officials face from deranged criminals who would do them harm,\u201d Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. \u201cI am grateful that my friend Vice President\u00a0Vance\u00a0and his family are safe, applaud the police work that led to the arrest and will ensure my prosecutors deliver swift justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

If convicted as charged, Aguayo could face up to five years in federal prison, prosecutors noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 An Anaheim man is facing a federal charge after allegedly promising \u201cbloodshed\u201d at Disneyland during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,723,138,14802,1341,6500,100,611],"class_list":["post-140039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-criminal-threats","tag-disneyland","tag-jd-vance","tag-news","tag-orange-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140039","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=140039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}