An Anaheim man accused of posting threats against Vice President JD Vance during a visit to Disneyland last year pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in a federal indictment.<\/p>\n
Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22, is charged with threats against Vance in an indictment handed down Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge John Holcomb, who scheduled a status conference for March 6 and set trial for March 23.<\/p>\n
According to an FBI affidavit, Vance and his family were visiting the theme park when Aguayo allegedly posted threats on his Instagram account about 6:15 p.m. July 12.<\/p>\n
Aguayo posted, \u201cPipe bombs have been placed in preparation for JD Vance\u2019s arrival,\u201d the FBI alleged.<\/p>\n
He also allegedly commented, \u201cIt\u2019s time for us to rise up and you will be a witness to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FBI said he also stated, \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
When FBI agents and an Anaheim police sergeant confronted Aguayo about the posts that evening, he initially denied knowledge and claimed his account had been hacked, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n
Later, Aguayo \u201cultimately admitted to making the threatening statements,\u201d the FBI said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe claimed that he intended it merely as a joke to provoke attention and laughter,\u201d the FBI alleged. \u201cAguayo stated he contemplated deleting the post but ultimately forgot to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Anaheim man accused of posting threats against Vice President JD Vance during a visit to Disneyland last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1436,1341,4164,168,4165,6283,11431,28768,75690],"class_list":["post-181870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-case","tag-disneyland","tag-guilty","tag-involving","tag-pleads","tag-president","tag-threat","tag-vance","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181870","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=181870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}