{"id":310402,"date":"2026-10-20T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:06:16","slug":"man-threatens-to-kill-pa-lawmaker-family-in-front-of-town-according-to-state-police-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310402\/","title":{"rendered":"Man threatens to kill PA lawmaker, family &#8216;in front of town&#8217;, according to state police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A man is in custody after Pennsylvania State Police said he sent several threatening messages to a Pennsylvania representative and his family, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Geisler, 63, of Mansfield, was charged with terroristic threatening after troopers said he sent multiple messages to Rep. Jamie Walsh (R-117), including an email threatening violence against him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, PSP noted that one email sent to Walsh&#8217;s office threatened to kill him and his family &#8220;in front of town&#8221; on or around 7:18 a.m. on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Tioga County District Attorney&#8217;s Office filed the charges, and PSP is continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A man is in custody after Pennsylvania State Police said he sent several threatening messages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-310402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310402","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=310402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}