{"id":224327,"date":"2026-04-09T02:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:59:50","slug":"plant-city-man-arrested-faces-federal-charges-for-threat-against-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224327\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant City man arrested, faces federal charges for threat against President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plant City<\/a> man was arrested for threatening to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/people\/donald-j-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">President Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in the Middle District of Florida announced on Monday night that Nick Guadalupe Cruiz-Lopez, 20, was arrested and charged with the threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the complaint, he posted this picture on April 2 to his Instagram account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_cruz_lopez-potus-threat.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Middle District of Florida <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Federal agents found him that same day and arrested him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The investigation was conducted entirely by the U.S. Secret Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Investigators did not release any other information, such as if they took the rifle from him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This case will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ross Roberts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">If convicted, Cruz-Lopez faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 13 gathered this information from a press release from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plant City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/people\/donald-j-trump\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; A Plant City man was arrested for threatening to kill President Donald Trump.\u00a0 What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28763,47,629,115,992,10784,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-224327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-people","13":"tag-plant-city","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224327","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=224327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}