{"id":24794,"date":"2025-11-04T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:16:09","slug":"pennsylvania-man-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-member-of-congress-arrested-outside-senate-building-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24794\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill member of Congress arrested outside senate building \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">WASHINGTON  \u2014 A Pennsylvania man is in custody, accused of threatening to kill a member of Congress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The U.S. Capitol Police says Richard Griffin, 43, was stopped by officers before he could get through a security screening at the Russell Senate Office Building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The department says Griffin was on its be on the lookout bulletin, and has a history of emailing a Congressional office, various government officials and law enforcement agencies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators did not identify the member of Congress whom Griffin threatened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Griffin is facing a charge of threats to do bodily harm, police say. <\/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\">\u00a92025 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":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A Pennsylvania man is in custody, accused of threatening to kill a member of Congress. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[815,16472,14190,4030,16473,4881,16474,744,2008,28,30,29,50,16416,4519,3571,3668,8576,16475],"class_list":{"0":"post-24794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-flag","10":"tag-architecture","11":"tag-blue","12":"tag-capitol","13":"tag-capitol-hill","14":"tag-federal-building","15":"tag-government","16":"tag-office","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","19":"tag-pennsylvania-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-russell-senate-office-building","22":"tag-senate","23":"tag-sky","24":"tag-summer","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-washington-dc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794","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=24794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}