{"id":192720,"date":"2026-05-14T22:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192720\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:46:06","slug":"man-accused-of-threatening-lawmakers-online-has-preliminary-hearing-waived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192720\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of threatening lawmakers online has preliminary hearing waived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Court documents say two Pittsburgh-area lawmakers were named on an alleged online hit list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">State Sen.. Lindsey Williams and state Rep. Emily Kinkead were named on that list, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-pittsburgh-area-lawmakers-among-20-lawmakers-threatened-through-social-media\/SCUOIW3GVJF5ZAJFX6RGVTQNZU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-pittsburgh-area-lawmakers-among-20-lawmakers-threatened-through-social-media\/SCUOIW3GVJF5ZAJFX6RGVTQNZU\/\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; 2 Pittsburgh-area lawmakers among 20 lawmakers threatened through social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Adam Berryhill is accused of making that list. He was set to face a judge on Thursday morning, but his preliminary hearing was waived. He\u2019s now scheduled to be arraigned next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">New video shows Berryhill in a red jumpsuit and handcuffs walking into the Lebanon County courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">State police say 20 democratic lawmakers were directly named in posts by Berryhill on his \u201cX\u201d account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators say Berryhill made statements about shootings and also mentioned a Memorial Day operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In a statement, State Senator Lindsey Williams said: \u201cI\u2019m scared that there has been another threat to my life, for myself, for my staff, my family, and any innocent bystanders. But I\u2019m also furious as to how this incident was communicated to me. These threats were made over a month ago, and yesterday was the first time I was made aware of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotlight PA<\/a> reports that state police are taking blame for not notifying lawmakers about the threats and promising to adopt a better notification process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Court documents say two Pittsburgh-area lawmakers were named on an alleged online hit list.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85779,10873,10820,85781,85783,869,85778,85780,85775,85782,85777,4932,64267,139,859,73,75,74,13436,32138,85776,420,860],"class_list":["post-192720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-adam_berryhill","tag-alyssa","tag-alyssa_raymond","tag-barry_hill","tag-berry_hill","tag-channel_11","tag-emily_kincaid","tag-gordon_berry_hill","tag-lebanon_county","tag-lebanon_county_courthouse","tag-lindsey_williams","tag-lisa","tag-memorial_day","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-spotlight_pa","tag-state_representative","tag-state_senator","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192720","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=192720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}