BISBEE, Ariz. – A southern Arizona man was arrested for making death threats against Donald Trump on social media, authorities said Thursday, the same day the Republican former president and 2024 candidate was in the area to visit the U.S.-Mexico border .
The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, of the town of Benson. It’s in the same county as the border area that Trump visited in the afternoon and that his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, went to in recent weeks.
The sheriff’s office said Syvrud was arrested around 2:30 p.m. during a traffic stop.
“As part of the on-site operations plan for the visit by candidate Donald Trump on today’s date, the location of this subject was a priority,” the agency said in a statement.
An online search failed to find any social media accounts in Syvrud’s name or any contact information for him. His name did not immediately appear on the list of inmates at the county jail, and there was no word yet on whether he had a court date or an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The sheriff’s office said Syvrud was charged with several outstanding warrants in Wisconsin for driving under the influence and failure to appear in court, as well as a misdemeanor charge in Graham County, Arizona, and failure to register as a sex offender in Coconino. County, Arizona.
Trump survived an assassination attempt July 13. This Wednesday, at his first outdoor rally since the attempt, he spoke behind bulletproof glass in North Carolina at an event focused on national security.
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