{"id":27317,"date":"2025-10-30T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:04:27","slug":"el-paso-il-man-arrested-for-making-threats-against-trump-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/27317\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso IL man arrested for making threats against Trump | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; An El Paso man was charged in federal court after making threats against President Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElPasoILPoliceDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0r6YcGjm3NQWZukRiNezFUoWooWSQWSKR8B1wsYQCGYuWYSqsyRLozfCA1NBZG8Mhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0they arrested 27-year-old Derek Lopez of El Paso just after 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 during a traffic stop along Main Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Lopez was wanted on a federal warrant for reportedly making threats against Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police added that Lopez was arrested without resistance and was later questioned by FBI and Secret Service at the El Paso Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was then booked at Woodford County Jail and placed under federal detention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Lopez faces a maximum of five years in prison, according to the Central District of Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More Coverage:<\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-headline\"><a class=\"tnt-asset-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/crime\/urbana-man-pleads-guilty-in-deadly-hit-and-run-dui-crash\/article_26a50056-687d-4f83-b5f0-0fca637af05d.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Urbana man pleads guilty in deadly hit-and-run DUI crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-headline\"><a class=\"tnt-asset-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/crime\/toledo-man-charged-with-6-felonies-including-sexual-assault-child-pornography\/article_be64a1d2-88f0-4cd4-b235-4c329fe96b71.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toledo man charged with 6 felonies including sexual assault, child pornography<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-headline\"><a class=\"tnt-asset-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/crime\/ice-places-immigration-detainer-on-suspect-in-deadly-westfield-crash\/article_c608cfd3-00d2-48d1-aa68-aaa7641215c9.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICE places immigration detainer on suspect in deadly Westfield crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Copyright 2025. WAND TV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; An El Paso man was charged in federal court after making threats against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18860,18858,145,138,140,139,2263,3646,18859,18861,1546],"class_list":["post-27317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-arrest-made","tag-derek-lopez","tag-donald-trump","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police-department","tag-fbi","tag-secret-service","tag-threats","tag-woodford-county-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317","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=27317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}