{"id":206268,"date":"2026-03-26T01:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:51:28","slug":"fbi-arrests-man-who-allegedly-made-threats-at-tampas-macdill-air-force-base-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206268\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrests man who allegedly made threats at Tampa&#8217;s MacDill Air Force Base | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">TAMPA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The FBI arrested a St. Petersburg man in connection with bomb threats made at MacDill Air Force Base last week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jonathan James Elder, 35, faces charges for making the threats. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/state\/shelter-in-place-order-lifted-after-threat-at-tampas-macdill-air-force-base\/article_1ba905a8-885b-461b-8565-0bf48dfb4cf1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The second threat resulted in a full base lockdown<\/a> for hours and raised the threat condition to Force Protection Condition Charlie, the second-highest level.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Court records claim Elder admitted to calling the base. In one of the calls, he allegedly said, &#8220;Tick tick boom, it&#8217;s gonna be between your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The FBI tracked down Elder using phone records, cell site data, and digital records. The case against him also shows he has a history of Baker Act commitments going back to 2014.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After Elder&#8217;s arrest, the Tampa Bay Times posted that it received a video from someone taking credit for the bomb threats. That video came from someone else, according to WINK security analyst and retired FBI agent Richard Kolko.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The investigation into the additional video claiming responsibility for the threats remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Refer to Elder&#8217;s arrest info below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The FBI arrested a St. Petersburg man in connection with bomb threats made at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115,914,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-206268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-news","tag-state","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206268","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=206268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}