{"id":189179,"date":"2026-03-12T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:39:08","slug":"illinois-man-charged-with-sending-threats-to-federal-judges-in-texas-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189179\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois man charged with sending threats to federal judges in Texas and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Chicago&#8217;s north suburbs has been charged with threatening federal judges in Texas and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>James Lebuhn, 65, of Libertyville, has been charged with two counts of mailing a threatening communication.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charges filed in federal court in Chicago, Lebuhn sent threatening messages to federal judges in Amarillo, Texas, and Fort Pierce, Florida, in March 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The charges do not provide any details of the threats contained in the letters, but accuse Lebuhn of sending the letters &#8220;for the purpose of making a true threat, and knowing the communication would be viewed as a true threat, and recklessly disregarding a substantial risk that the others would regard the communication as a threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An arraignment hearing for Lebuhn has been scheduled for March 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Chicago&#8217;s north suburbs has been charged with threatening federal judges in Texas and Florida. James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,9879,88536,5537],"class_list":["post-189179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-illinois","tag-libertyville","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189179","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=189179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}