Charges: Utah man threatened to kill Trump, attack theatre

AP  |  Salt Lake City (US) 

A US grand jury has charged a man with threatening to kill Donald Trump during his visit last month to announce changes to two national monuments.

An indictment released yesterday by the US attorney's office in alleges that 33-year-old submitted messages to a police tip line threatening to kill the and to harm police officers if they tried to intervene.


The charges say Dominguez also threatened to carry out a mass shooting or use explosives at a movie theatre.

US attorney's says in a statement that Dominguez was arrested after he was seen near the theatre.

No was available for Dominguez, and a message left at a phone number publicly listed for him was not immediately returned.

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First Published: Thu, January 04 2018. 18:11 IST