{"id":399571,"date":"2026-07-15T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:12:08","slug":"san-jose-state-university-graduate-student-faces-federal-charges-for-bomb-threats-hateful-graffiti-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399571\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State University Graduate Student Faces Federal Charges For Bomb Threats, Hateful Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ziheng &#8220;Tony&#8221; Fang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-jose-state-university-hateful-graffiti-threats-suspect-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was arrested in May<\/a> on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes after authorities said he vandalized multiple campus buildings and public spaces with hateful and threatening messages. The 30-year-old Fang made his initial court appearance on Friday and was scheduled to appear on Monday for the identification of counsel, although the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Northern District of California did not confirm whether the proceeding was held as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>As alleged in the criminal complaint, between October 2024 and May 2026, SJSU&#8217;s Police Department recorded more than 20 instances of hateful messages in men&#8217;s and gender-neutral restrooms around the SJSU campus. Many of these messages included threats specifying a particular date that an attack was allegedly intended to take place, as well as the weapons and methods that would be used, including mass bombings and shootings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ziheng &#8220;Tony&#8221; Fang was arrested in May on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes after authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-399571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571","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=399571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}