{"id":452907,"date":"2026-10-01T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:30:13","slug":"suspect-tied-to-credible-threat-on-texas-capitol-released-on-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452907\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect tied to credible threat on Texas Capitol released on bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\">AUSTIN, Texas (The Texas Tribune)<\/a> &#8211; The Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday arrested a San Antonio-area man for allegedly planning an attack at the Texas Capitol on Thursday after receiving information about a credible threat, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Benny Caldera, a 40-year-old Converse resident, was arrested at 3 a.m. Wednesday by DPS, booked into Bexar County Jail and charged with a felony for a terroristic threat against a public agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An email from Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw sent to Capitol staff obtained by The Texas Tribune said the individual arrested was the \u201cmain suspect\u201d in a planned attack with suspected co-conspirators intended for Thursday. A statement from DPS about Caldera\u2019s arrest made no mention of any other suspects or arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS\u2019 statement and Spaw\u2019s email said there would be increased DPS presence at the state Capitol while an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The FBI was involved in assisting with the arrest, DPS said. An FBI spokesperson did not respond to an immediate request for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There are no legislative hearings or events scheduled for Oct. 1, according to the Capitol legislative website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a social media post, Gov. Greg Abbott thanked DPS and the FBI for their roles in arresting Caldera. \u201cTexas will NOT tolerate threats of violence against our Capitol,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In June 2025, DPS arrested a man in La Grange for threats that prompted the evacuation of the Texas Capitol, which occurred the day of a large \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest at the Capitol and downtown Austin. The man was released from jail a few days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (The Texas Tribune) &#8211; The Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday arrested a San Antonio-area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,2055,2060,2058,2057,2059,2061,27,29,28,2056],"class_list":["post-452907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452907","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=452907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}