{"id":251088,"date":"2026-07-24T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251088\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:14:07","slug":"dickson-city-man-accused-of-making-political-based-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251088\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickson City man accused of making political-based death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers arrested a 51-year-old Dickson City man Wednesday after he allegedly made death threats directed at law enforcement, judges, and state lawmakers on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Secret Service initially received a referral from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Threat Center, regarding online Facebook posts made by Stacy W. Mann containing death threats to government officials and law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>State police conducted a joint investigation with the Secret Service and found evidence showing that Mann indicated his intent to \u201clive-stream\u201d the murders of law enforcement officers, state senators and representatives, judges, district attorneys, and other government officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the Pennsylvania State Police, Stacy W. Mann was taken into custody without incident following an investigation led by the PSP\u2019s Political Violence Threat Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Mann is charged with making terroristic threats and other related offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers arrested a 51-year-old Dickson City man Wednesday after he allegedly made death threats directed at law enforcement,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,1099,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-251088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251088","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=251088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}