A southern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ man was arrested for allegedly making death threats against Donald Trump on social media, authorities said Thursday, the same day the Republican former president and 2024 candidate was in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ County to campaign.
The ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, of Benson.
It’s in the same county as the border area that Trump held a campaign stop Thursday afternoon and that his running mate Sen. JD Vance also recently visited.
Donald Trump holds a chart he said showed border crossing data during a campaign stop Thursday in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ County. A Benson man was arrested the same day after authorities say he made threats against the former president.
Syvrud was arrested about 2:30 p.m. during a traffic stop, the sheriff’s office said.
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“As part of the operations plan in place for the visit of candidate Donald Trump on today’s date, locating this subject was a priority,†the agency said in a statement.
An online search failed to turn up 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 booked on several outstanding warrants in Wisconsin for driving under the influence and failure to appear in court, as well as a felony hit and run charge in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥â€™s Graham County and failure to register as a sex offender in Coconino County.
Trump survived an assassination attempt July 13.
This Wednesday, at his first outdoor rally since the attempt, he spoke from behind bulletproof glass in North Carolina at an event focused on national security.
