FAA employee charged with Trump death threat in New Hampshire

A. Federal Aviation Administration A New Hampshire employee was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, whom he criticized for the war against Iran, the U.S. attorney’s office in Concord said Tuesday.

Dean DelleChiaieThe 35-year-old, who was arrested on Monday, allegedly searched the internet on his government work computer for terms that caught the attention of the U.S. Secret Service in late January, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Those topics included “how to get a gun into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts against the President, the percentage of the population that wants the President dead, and the phrase ‘I will kill Donald John Trump,'” according to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint against the Nashau resident.

DelleChiaie also searched for the locations of the homes of Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the affidavit said.

The FAA’s Information Technology department notified the Secret Service about the “concerning searches” after DelleChiaie took the FAA computer to the department and requested that the search history be deleted from the device, Secret Service Special Agent Nathanael Gamble wrote in his affidavit.

On Feb. 3, a Secret Service agent and a Nashua Police officer visited DelleChiaie’s apartment, where he “admitted to making the searches…and was remorseful,” the affidavit said.

“DelleChiaie stated that she realized she shouldn’t be researching these topics and that it was crazy for her to do so on her work computer,” Gamble said. he wrote.

He also said he was motivated to conduct the searches because he was “uncomfortable with the current administration over a number of issues, including elections, presidential pardons, and the ‘Epstein files.'” ”

These files are documents related to the Justice Department’s investigations into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During the call, the Secret Service agent saw several items written on a whiteboard attached to DelleChiaie’s: “More calm;” “There has been no arrest by the police for 1 month;” “If they don’t take action, go to the DC’s office;” “Arrest me, say ‘I will kill Donald John Trump in my sworn defense,'” according to the affidavit.

The agent and police officer were interested in the assassinations, “but were conducting an investigation into the assassinations because it was part of the cycle that was going on in his mind,” the affidavit said.

“DelleChiaie stated that she was depressed and was seeing a therapist and began Ketamine treatment to get better,” Gamble wrote. “DelleChiaie admitted that he smoked to ‘black out’ and that he smoked every day. Dellechiaie said he smoked marijuana every day and occasionally used mushrooms.”

He also admitted to having a handgun locked in a safe at his home and also having another handgun and a shotgun at a friend’s house, according to the affidavit.

Then, on April 21, DelleChiaie allegedly used her personal email to send an email to the White House’s public address with the subject “Contact the President.”

“I, Dean DelleChiaie, will neutralize/kill you (Donald John Trump) because you decided to kill children and said it was War, when in reality it was terrorism,” he said in the email, according to the affidavit.

“God knows your actions and where you belong,” the email read.

DelleChiaie is charged with interstate transmission of a threat against the president.

He works in mechanical engineering at the FAA, according to the online site Open PayrollsTracking the salaries of federal employees.

DelleChiaie appeared in U.S. District Court in New Hampshire on Tuesday morning. Details of this hearing were not immediately available from the prosecutor’s office.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the hearing.

The FAA referred the request to prosecutors when contacted for comment.

If convicted, DelleChiaie faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Former FBI Director James Comey was accused in a federal indictment on April 28 of threatening to kill Trump by posting a photo of seashells on a North Carolina beach arranged to form the numbers “86 47” on Instagram.

According to dictionaries, “86” is a slang word used to fire or remove a person, and Trump is the 47th president of the United States. Trump said last year that he believed Comey, a longtime foe, had called for his assassination.

Comey, who is free without bail, has said he is innocent in the case and his lawyer has said he plans to request the indictment be dismissed because of the Justice Department’s vindictive prosecution.

Another defendant, Cole Tomas Allen, is accused of trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner held in Washington on April 25.

Allen was seized that night by Secret Service agents after passing through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where Trump and senior officials in his administration were dining with hundreds of journalists.

That night, Allen allegedly fired the shotgun he was carrying, hitting a Secret Service agent’s protective vest, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.

Allen is being held without bail.