{"id":310470,"date":"2026-10-20T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310470\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:20:23","slug":"pa-man-threatens-to-kill-state-representative-his-family-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310470\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. man threatens to kill state representative, his family, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n

A Tioga County man is accused of threatening to kill a Pennsylvania state representative and his family, according to Pennsylvania State Police. <\/p>\n

Authorities said Timothy Geisler, 63, of Mansfield, was charged with making terroristic threats in connection with an email sent to the office of state Rep. Jamie Walsh, R-Luzerne County. <\/p>\n

The incident was reported at 7:18 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1. <\/p>\n

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Office of State Representative Jamie Walsh<\/p>\n

Jamie Walsh<\/p>\n

\"\"Threatened to kill Walsh and his family ‘in front of town,’ police say <\/p>\n

According to a recent release, the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus and the Office of State Representative Jamie Walsh contacted the Pennsylvania State Police Political Violence Threat Unit regarding the email. <\/p>\n

Investigators said they obtained evidence showing that Geisler directed multiple threatening messages toward Walsh in the email. <\/p>\n

According to police, Geisler threatened to kill Walsh and his family “in front of town.” <\/p>\n

No further information has been released at this time. <\/p>\n

Walsh<\/a> is serving his first term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represents the 117th Legislative District in Luzerne County. <\/p>\n

Walsh issues statement<\/p>\n

Walsh released the following statement Monday afternoon:<\/p>\n

“I want to extend my deepest gratitude to law enforcement for their swift response and continued efforts to ensure the safety of me, my family and my legislative staff.<\/p>\n

“Threats and intimidation have no place in our democracy. No public servant, family member or staff member should have to fear for their safety for serving their community. Political disagreements are to be expected but must never escalate into threats of violence or attempts to intimidate those who serve the public.<\/p>\n

“I am grateful to the law enforcement professionals who take these threats seriously and work diligently to protect those at risk. I will continue to stand firmly against political violence and intimidation and remain committed to carrying out my duties as a state representative.”<\/p>\n

Stay with WGAL for updates as we learn more. <\/p>\n

See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it\u2019s safe to do so at https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/upload<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A Tioga County man is accused of threatening to kill a Pennsylvania state representative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14827,1510,15217,2008,16457,28,30,127068,29,206,127067,8349,3522,127066,7608,420,42320,2812],"class_list":["post-310470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-email","tag-family","tag-front","tag-office","tag-pa-man","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-house-republican-caucus","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-police","tag-state-rep-jamie-walsh","tag-state-representative","tag-thursday","tag-timothy-geisler","tag-town","tag-video","tag-walsh","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310470","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=310470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}