{"id":357006,"date":"2026-07-01T08:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:40:33","slug":"fbi-arrests-postal-worker-who-allegedly-threatened-mass-shooting-at-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357006\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrests postal worker who allegedly threatened mass shooting at Pride parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was arrested Sunday after threatening on social media to commit a mass shooting at a Pride parade in Texas,<\/a> the FBI announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

Michael Thompson, who resides in Clovis, New Mexico, was taken into custody after authorities received a tip regarding a threat to conduct a mass casualty attack at a Pride event in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n

“This weekend\u2019s arrest out of Lubbock, Texas, is the best of this FBI and our law enforcement partners in action\u2014yet again stopping a potentially deadly attack thanks to brilliant execution from our teams and partners,” said FBI Director Kash Patel<\/a>. “Our agents, intel teams, and state and local partners out of Texas acted decisively and stopped him before he could act.”<\/p>\n

Thompson admitted to making and subsequently deleting the social media posts, authorities said. He also identified himself as a USPS employee. Fox News Digital has reached out to the USPS for comment.<\/p>\n

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A man has been arrested for threatening to conduct a mass shooting at a Pride event in Lubbock, Texas, the FBI said Monday. (Axel Schmidt\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

Authorities said they recovered four firearms from Thompson’s residence. He is legally prohibited from owning firearms due to a prior felony domestic violence conviction, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n

Thompson is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm as well as transmitting threatening interstate communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“More lives saved thanks to good cops being cops,” Patel added.<\/p>\n

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Michael Thompson allegedly admitted to making and later deleting the posts, and authorities said they recovered four firearms from his residence. (\u00a0Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Investigators continued to interview Thompson on Monday, and he was expected to make his initial court appearance<\/a> later that day.<\/p>\n

Lubbock hosted its LubbockPRIDE festival over the weekend without incident, according to local reports.<\/p>\n

“Yesterday was filled with so much love, fun, and community, and we couldn\u2019t have asked for a better celebration,” organizers wrote on Facebook following the event. “Thank you to everyone who came out and made it so special!”<\/p>\n

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Organizers of a major pride event in Lubbock, Texas, said the event went on without any issues. (AP)<\/p>\n

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In a separate incident in Brunswick, Georgia, a man was arrested earlier this month after police said he threatened to attack attendees at a local LGBTQ+ Pride event. Christopher Waller, 25, was charged with making terroristic threats<\/a> stemming from comments posted in a local Facebook group on June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was arrested Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3646,18304,9421,27,29,28,126889],"class_list":["post-357006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fbi","tag-hate-crime","tag-kash-patel","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-usps-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357006","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=357006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}