{"id":40864,"date":"2025-11-06T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40864\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:56:07","slug":"man-suspected-of-death-threats-to-rep-robert-garcia-is-arrested-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40864\/","title":{"rendered":"Man suspected of death threats to Rep. Robert Garcia is arrested \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who allegedly made \u201ccredible death threats\u201d against Rep. Robert Garcia<\/a>, D-Long Beach, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police after he tried entering a federal building, the congressmember\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Garcia, who was in California, is safe, his office said in a statement<\/a> on Tuesday, Nov. 4, which also happened to be Election Day in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnited States Capitol Police announced that they arrested a suspect who had made death threats to Congressman Garcia,\u201d his office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect attempted to enter the Congressional complex and had sent a message to the congressman\u2019s office stating that he was going to travel to Washington, D.C., to kill him. Congressman Garcia is in California and is safe,\u201d the statement went on to say.<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s office did not name the suspect.<\/p>\n

However, a separate press release<\/a> by USCP, also issued Tuesday, announced the arrest of 43-year-old Richard Griffin of Pennsylvania for \u201cthreats to do bodily harm for threatening to kill a member of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the only press release issued that day by USCP.<\/p>\n

According to the agency, Griffin had been identified in a \u201cbe on the lookout\u201d bulletin issued by USCP on Oct. 28. The man was stopped before he could go through security screening at the Russell Senate Office Building, the press release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not tolerate any threats to the members of Congress, their families, or staff,\u201d USCP Chief Michael Sullivan said. \u201cOur officers, agents, and professional staff work relentlessly to bring offenders to justice. We have a zero-tolerance stance when it comes to threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin allegedly has a track record of \u201cemailing a congressional office\u201d and various government officials and law enforcement agencies, USCP said.<\/p>\n

The USCP\u2019s public information office did not immediately respond to an email requesting more information on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

An auto-reply message from the office said it is closed for routine business during the federal government shutdown<\/a> \u2014 though it noted that the shutdown doesn\u2019t affect security at the Capitol Complex and USCP officers who perform or support emergency functions are still reporting to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly made \u201ccredible death threats\u201d against Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, was arrested by U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,1752,131,133,132,137,2582,100,13],"class_list":["post-40864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-congress","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-national-politics","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864","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=40864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}