A northern Palm Beach County man was arrested Friday after multiple people reported to police threats he allegedly wrote on social media against former President Donald Trump and his newly-announced running mate U.S. Sen. JD Vance.
Jupiter Police began investigating Michael M. Wiseman after receiving multiple tips from people online and others who talked to officers in person about their concerns, the department said in a news release shared Friday on Facebook. The police department did not provide Wiseman’s age.
Wiseman was in custody at the Palm Beach County jail on Friday night, a jail employee confirmed to the Associated Press. The employee said she didn’t have information about whether Wiseman had an attorney to contact for comment on his behalf.
Jupiter is about 20 miles north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.
The arrest comes almost a week after a 20-year-old gunman shot at Trump while he was speaking at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in what authorities have called an attempted assassination. A former fire chief in the crowd was shot and killed, and Trump’s ear was wounded.
Details about the alleged threatening social media posts were not included in the news release other than Wiseman “made multiple threats” against Trump and Vance on his Facebook account, as well as threats “concerning bodily harm” to Trump’s and Vance’s relatives.
Wiseman is facing multiple charges of written threats to kill, a second-degree felony. The police department did not release additional information.
The U.S. Secret Service participated in the investigation, AP reported.
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