made a bomb threat against the Dallas County Courthouse<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\nRyan Van Gorp is charged with two counts of threat of terrorism, a Class D felony under Iowa law.<\/p>\n
According to the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies were notified early Feb. 6, about a tip submitted to the FBI through an online reporting system claiming two men had placed explosive devices throughout the courthouse and planned to detonate them at 9 a.m. that day. Investigators later learned a voicemail with the same threat had also been left for an executive assistant with the State Court Administration.<\/p>\n
Security measures were implemented at the courthouse, including a search by an explosives-detection K-9. No explosive devices were found.<\/p>\n
Through search warrants, detectives seized a cellphone belonging to Van Gorp that was used to submit the online tip. A forensic review also showed a record of the voicemail and other evidence related to the investigation.<\/p>\n
Van Gorp was arrested Feb. 9 on an unrelated warrant. Authorities said he had been scheduled to be sentenced in two Dallas County court cases the same day the threat was reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas County man is facing felony charges after authorities say he made a bomb threat against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35376,19471,79351,8838,102,581,63685,79347,9212,104,103,19501,79350,79349,3646,3685,20386,9216,79352,79345,8094,79346,79348,71715],"class_list":["post-201237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-authority","tag-bomb-threat","tag-class-d-felony","tag-courthouse","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-county-courthouse","tag-dallas-county-man","tag-dallas-county-sheriffs-office","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-day","tag-early-feb","tag-explosive-device","tag-fbi","tag-iowa","tag-kcci","tag-office","tag-online-reporting-system","tag-ryan-van-gorp","tag-search","tag-state-court-administration","tag-terrorism-threat","tag-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}