{"id":165081,"date":"2026-04-14T03:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:01:19","slug":"pennsylvania-man-pleads-guilty-to-making-death-threats-against-president-trump-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165081\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to making death threats against President Trump, ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WHTM) \u2014 A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to making death threats against President Donald Trump and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the Department of Justice said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shawn Moper, 33, of Butler, pleaded guilty to two counts of threatening to assault and murder United States officials and federal law enforcement officers with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with and retaliate against the officials and agents while they were engaged in, and on account of, the performance of official duties, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Threats were posted by Moper on YouTube earlier this year under the name \u201cMr. Satan,\u201d which investigators were able to trace back to his home, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI have bought several guns and have been stocking up on ammo since Trump got in office,\u201d \u201cEventually im going to do a mass shooting,\u201d and \u201cI have been buying 1 gun a month since the election, body armor and ammo,\u201d were some threats that Moper made, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/pennsylvanians-offered-chance-win-2026-142048160.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pennsylvanians offered chance to win 2026 PGA Championship tickets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Pennsylvanians offered chance to win 2026 PGA Championship tickets&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Pennsylvanians offered chance to win 2026 PGA Championship tickets <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking about ICE, the DOJ said Moper also threatened that \u201cICE are terrorist people, we need to start killing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The DOJ said Moper was arrested April 9 last year. Prosecutors didn\u2019t mention finding weapons in his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moper\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for August 12, and he faces a maximum of 10 years for each count he pleaded guilty to and a fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\" data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Close&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FBI and Butler Township Police Department investigated the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WHTM) \u2014 A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to making death threats against President Donald Trump and the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69764,22794,5202,28,30,29,368,74409],"class_list":["post-165081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-death-threats","tag-department-of-justice","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-shawn-moper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}