Corey Bennett faces charges for allegedly threatening Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro.<\/p>\n
State Police said the 34-year-old, who is an inmate at SCI Camp Hill, made the threats in two letters.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the letters were intended to be sent to two separate county clerks.<\/p>\n
Police said Bennett admitted to writing them.<\/p>\n
He also allegedly threatened the Governor’s mansion.<\/p>\n
In a statement, State Police wrote in part:<\/p>\n
“It is our duty to uphold the sanctity of the law and to protect the Commonwealth. PSP takes threats against the lives of public officials seriously – that’s why the department has formed a dedicated unit to address the growing amount of ideologically motivated violence against elected officials.”<\/p>\n
According to an affidavit, Bennett wrote a letter in May saying if he is transferred to SCI Fayette, he has a well thought out plan to kill a staff member and escape the prison.<\/p>\n
The complaint states Bennett wrote he would go to the home of a Department of Corrections Attorney, tie him up and harm his children.<\/p>\n
Bennett also allegedly wrote he would assassinate the Secretary of Corrections and as many Central Office staff as possible.<\/p>\n
This latest alleged threat against the governor comes weeks after investigators said a Delaware County man threatened to set the Governor’s mansion on fire.<\/p>\n
In October, Cody Balmer pleaded guilty to firebombing the governor’s mansion in April of last year.<\/p>\n
It happened while the governor, his family and guests were asleep inside.<\/p>\n
Nobody was injured.<\/p>\n
The Governor’s mansion has undergone security upgrades since the arson last year.<\/p>\n
Police said Bennett remains in custody at SCI Camp Hill.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the Governor’s Office for comment and we were advised to contact State Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Bennett faces charges for allegedly threatening Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro. State Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255100","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=255100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}