{"id":254071,"date":"2026-07-28T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:47:19","slug":"inmate-from-tennessee-charged-after-threatening-governor-shapiro-and-first-lady-shapiro-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254071\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate from Tennessee charged after threatening Governor Shapiro and First Lady Shapiro | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; An inmate at a correctional institution was charged for threatening Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, July 22, members of the Pennsylvania State Police Political Violence Threat Unit were given information that an inmate at State Correctional Institution (SCI)- Camp Hill wrote two letters intended to be sent to two separate county clerks, according to a release from PSP.<\/p>\n<p>Police say in those letters, threats to Governor Josh Shapiro, his wife, First Lady Lori Shapiro and the Governor&#8217;s mansion were discovered. The letters were intercepted by SCI Camp Hill staff prior to being sent.<\/p>\n<p>The release says the inmate, Corey Alan Bennett, a 34-year-old man from Knoxville, Tennessee, was interviewed and admitted to writing the letters. Bennett was charged with Terroristic Threats and remains in custody at SCI Camp Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. &#8211; An inmate at a correctional institution was charged for threatening Governor Josh Shapiro and First&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108329,108330,4531,49688,33,568,28,30,29,1224,106029,7654,16409],"class_list":["post-254071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-corey-alan-bennett","tag-cumberland-county-district-attorney","tag-governor","tag-inmate","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-lori-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-sci-camp-hill","tag-terroristic-threats","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254071","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=254071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}