{"id":24818,"date":"2025-11-04T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24818\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:40:12","slug":"pennsylvania-man-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-member-of-congress-arrested-outside-senate-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24818\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill member of Congress arrested outside senate building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e63637b9287fe841db95e5354e8fb827.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Pennsylvania man is in custody, accused of threatening to kill a member of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators did not identify the member of Congress whom Griffin threatened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Griffin is facing a charge of threats to do bodily harm, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man is in custody, accused of threatening to kill a member of Congress. The U.S. Capitol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7097,16418,28,30,29,16480,16416,16481],"class_list":["post-24818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-congress","tag-congressional-office","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-richard-griffin","tag-russell-senate-office-building","tag-security-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818","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=24818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}