{"id":427034,"date":"2026-08-08T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427034\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:12:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-threatening-an-la-judge-authorities-say-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427034\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after threatening an LA judge, authorities say \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles authorities are investigating a man accused of threatening to kill a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge via a phone message.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said 39-year-old Kristofas Butsky left a voicemail message attempting to intimidate the unidentified judicial officer.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s department did not say when Butsky made the alleged threat or how he came into contact with the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Butsky was arrested for threatening an elected official, a felony.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s department said the case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles authorities are investigating a man accused of threatening to kill a Los Angeles County Superior Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,3426,50,49],"class_list":["post-427034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427034","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=427034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}