{"id":28103,"date":"2025-10-31T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28103\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:21:08","slug":"new-details-on-72-year-old-cape-coral-man-who-allegedly-threatened-ice-agents-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/28103\/","title":{"rendered":"New details on 72-year-old Cape Coral man who allegedly threatened ICE agents | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">New details have emerged following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/72-year-old-cape-coral-man-arrested-for-alleged-threats-against-ice-agents\/article_72a2a107-7400-45a3-b9c7-0d25c88e67a7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">72-year-old Cape Coral man<\/a> accused of making death threats towards the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Joseph Rocco Giancola Jr. allegedly made threats such as \u201cShoot the ICE Nazis dead\u201d and \u201cGet your gun and shoot them dead\u201d on his Bluesky account under the pseudonym \u201cCain Delon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Thursday, Giancola was arrested by Homeland Security at his daughter\u2019s home located on Chiquita Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">HSI Tampa acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Cochran said Giancola&#8217;s statements on Bluesky included violent rhetoric against ICE officials, comparing them to Nazis and threatening to shoot them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Freedom of speech carries a responsibility to exercise it in a manner that respects the safety and rights of others,&#8221; said Cochran.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News spoke with Giancola\u2019s daughter, Anna, who said her family was terrified when Homeland Security arrived at the home and searched through her belongings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I had heard \u2018get on the floor,\u2019 and I tried to go around the window, because I didn&#8217;t know if I was gonna get shot,&#8221; said Anna Giancola. &#8220;I had no clue if I was gonna get shot because there are lasers on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details have emerged following a 72-year-old Cape Coral man accused of making death threats towards the Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-28103","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\/28103","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=28103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}