Federal agents arrested a 72-year-old man in Cape Coral on Thursday morning as part of a Homeland Security investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joseph Giancola is accused of making threats against law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n
Anna Giancola, Joseph\u2019s daughter, shared with WINK News that her family was terrified when Homeland Security arrived at their home located on Chiquita Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Anna, agents surrounded the property and arrested her father for his alleged social media threats.<\/p>\n
“I had heard \u2018get on the floor,\u2019 and I tried to go around the window, because I didn’t know if I was gonna get shot,” said Anna Giancola.<\/p>\n
Anna explained that agents entered the home and searched through her belongings.<\/p>\n
“I had no clue if I was gonna get shot because there’s lasers on me,” she said. “So came to the front door, and as I came to the front door, there’s this rod sticking through my door, which I have video of it, Rod sticking through my door, and I still have no idea what’s going on, and there’s just flashes.”<\/p>\n
WINK News contacted the Department of Homeland Security regarding this investigation. A representative responded with, \u201cI\u2019m working to get some information put together for this search warrant this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal agents arrested a 72-year-old man in Cape Coral on Thursday morning as part of a Homeland Security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-26759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26759","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=26759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}