FAA Employee Arrested After Allegedly Threatening to Kill Trump From Work Computer

On April 21, DelleChiaie allegedly escalated to direct contact, sending a message from his personal email account to the White House's public-facing email address.

Rudy Blalock

Published: 5/5/2026, 1:59:48 PM EDT

FAA Employee Arrested After Allegedly Threatening to Kill Trump From Work Computer — President Donald Trump flashes a thumbs up while walking to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 1, 2026. (Jim Watson/AFP)

A federal employee who works for the Federal Aviation Administration was arrested Friday and charged with sending a death threat to President Donald Trump. The chilling case allegedly began with a series of disturbing searches conducted on a government-issued computer, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire.

Dean DelleChiaie, 35, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was taken into custody Thursday and made his initial court appearance Friday. He faces a single federal count of interstate communication of a threat against the president, according to U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan.

The case first came to light after DelleChiaie allegedly used his FAA work computer in late January to search topics including how to bring a firearm into a federal facility, historical assassination attempts on the president, what percentage of the population wants the president dead, and the phrase "I am going to kill Donald John Trump," according to the criminal complaint.

The U.S. Secret Service interviewed DelleChiaie in early February, at which point he allegedly acknowledged making the searches and told investigators he owns three firearms—among them a handgun he said was secured in a safe at his home.

Despite that interview, the alleged threats did not stop there.

On April 21, DelleChiaie allegedly escalated to direct contact, sending a message from his personal email account to the White House's public-facing email address. The subject line read "Contact the President." In the message, he wrote: "I, Dean DelleChiaie, am going neutralize/kill you - Donald John Trump - because you decided to kill kids - and say that it was War - when in reality - it is terrorism. God knows your actions and where you belong."

If convicted, DelleChiaie faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The Secret Service is leading the investigation, with assistance from the Nashua Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Shannon is prosecuting. As with all criminal complaints, DelleChiaie is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The arrest arrives among a broader pattern of federal cases involving alleged threats against the president and senior government officials.

In April, a Pennsylvania man named Shawn Monper, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of threatening to assault and murder Trump, ICE agents, and other officials. Monper, who posted under the alias "Mr. Satan" on YouTube, allegedly wrote: "Nah, we just need to start killing people, Trump, Elon, all the heads of agencies Trump appointed, and anyone who stands in the way." He also claimed to have been buying a gun every month since the 2024 election, along with body armor and ammunition. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 12.

In October 2025, Derek Lopez, 27, a graduate student and teaching assistant at Illinois State University in El Paso, Illinois, was arrested by the FBI on federal charges of making threats against the president, according to the FBI's Springfield Field Office. That arrest followed an earlier, unrelated Oct. 17 incident in which Lopez was accused of overturning a Turning Point USA table on campus—a video of which went viral on social media with more than 1.5 million views.

And just last week, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina on two federal counts tied to an alleged threat against Trump, according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The charges stem from a 2025 social media post in which Comey shared a photo of seashells arranged to spell "8647"—a combination that Trump allies interpreted as a call for violence against the 47th president. Comey has maintained his innocence, saying in a video posted to his Substack: "I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go."

Blanche said at a news conference that the department would pursue the case regardless of the defendant's identity. "Threatening the life of the president of the United States will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice," he said.