{"id":443326,"date":"2026-10-31T05:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443326\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:56:35","slug":"orlando-man-arrested-for-social-media-threats-against-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443326\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando man arrested for social media threats against Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man was arrested for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-911491\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatening<\/a> a newly established Jewish residential community with a firearm in posts on social media, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into 31-year-old Orlando resident Jerry Sneed began earlier in October when FLDE agents in Fort Myers received information regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-912673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatening social media posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sneed allegedly posted photos of the Glades County residential community and a firearm along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-912637\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threatening statements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">After the posts were reported, law enforcement obtained an arrest warrant, and Sneed was taken into custody by FDLE and the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>During the arrest, Sneed was found to be in possession of the firearm pictured in the threatening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-912441\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to FDLE, Sneed has been charged with written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, as well as unlawful use of a two-way communication device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">FDLE stated that the investigation into Sneed remains active.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Ynet report, the residential community was established in October and is expected to include around 1,300 housing units.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man was arrested for allegedly threatening a newly established Jewish residential community with a firearm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41480,692,21272,80893,28,139,141,140,4571],"class_list":["post-443326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antisemitism","tag-arrest","tag-death-threat","tag-diaspora","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443326","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=443326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}