FILE – Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak during a campaign rally, July 30, 2024, in Atlanta. Harris, the daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in U.S. history, is poised to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Frank Lucio Carillo was arrested on Friday and charged with making death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris on the social media account GETTR.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Carillo, who lives in Winchester, Virginia, started making “nearly 20 threats” to Harris after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee:

The threats included promises to kill Ms. Harris and her family, to pluck out her eyes with pliers and to burn her alive. “Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive I will do it personally if no one else does it I want her to suffer a slow agonizing death,” Mr. Carillo said in one post on July 27.

Prosecutors said that Carillo

had made several other threats to public officials including President Joe Biden and FBI Director Christopher Wray; he also used the name “Joe Madarats,” which investigators were able to tie to Carillo. The investigation began with a threat made to Stephen Richer, the Arizona Republican who rejected claims by other officials in his state that the 2020 election was stolen:

The F.B.I. began its investigation of Mr. Carillo after it was notified by its Phoenix office of a GETTR user that had threatened Mr. Richer, the Maricopa County official, according to the affidavit.

Carillo also made “numerous other posts about firearms and shooting people,” according to the FBI. He created an account on GETTR — the right-leaning platform created after January 6 that was launched by Jason Miller, an advisor to former President Donald Trump.

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