Austin<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n\n The tip came in Tuesday evening, and SWAT officers made the arrest about 3 a.m. Wednesday at a residence in Converse, near San Antonio.\n <\/p>\n
\n Benny Caldera Jr. was jailed and could face charges including felony terroristic threat against a public servant, the DPS statement said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Messages were left seeking comment from John Bunk, an attorney listed for Caldera.\n <\/p>\n
\n Officials did not provide details about the alleged plot, citing the ongoing investigation.\n <\/p>\n
\n DPS notified state lawmakers about the threat and arrest early Wednesday. The Capitol remained open during regular operating hours.\n <\/p>\n
\n Texas Senate Secretary Patsy Spaw said in a notice that there will be increased security at the Capitol during the investigation.\n <\/p>\n
\n Gov. Greg Abbott said the state DPS was assisted by the FBI in making the arrest.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTexas will NOT tolerate threats of violence against our Capitol,\u201d the governor said in a statement on social media.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A 40-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of plotting to attack the Texas Capitol, authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-452781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452781","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=452781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}