{"id":165864,"date":"2026-02-23T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165864\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:32:08","slug":"university-of-florida-police-increase-activity-due-to-threatening-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165864\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida Police increase activity due to threatening emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The University of Florida Police Department increased the presence of officers on campus on Monday due to threatening emails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say on Monday, several UF departments received emails threatening the safety of different locations of the campus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers say the threats are consistent with a hoax and are similar to threatening emails sent on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department has confirmed that there is no threat to safety; however, they are encouraging people to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious to police by calling 352-392-1111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The University of Florida Police Department increased the presence of officers on campus on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,5113,2511,78968,77854,2512,78967],"class_list":{"0":"post-165864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-threats","12":"tag-uf","13":"tag-uf-alert","14":"tag-ufpd","15":"tag-university-of-florida","16":"tag-university-of-florida-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}