The Federal Aviation Administration flag is raised over the Orville Wright Federal Building in Washington, which houses the FAA headquarters, in June 2025.
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A Federal Aviation Administration An employee in New Hampshire has been arrested for allegedly making death threats against President Donald Trump, whom he has criticized for his war with Iran, the U.S. attorney’s office in Concord said Tuesday.
dean delechianThe 35-year-old, who was arrested on Monday, allegedly conducted an Internet search on his government work computer in late January for the terms that attracted the attention of the US Secret Service, according to the US attorney’s office.
Those topics included “how to get a gun into a federal facility, past assassination attempts against the president, the percentage of the population that wants the president dead, and the phrase ‘I’m going to kill Donald John Trump,'” the office said.
The prosecutor’s office said Delechiani admitted to the Secret Service in early February that he had carried out the searches and that he had three firearms, one of which he kept in a safe at his home in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Then, on April 21, “Delechiani allegedly used his private email to send threats from across state lines to the White House public email address,” the office said.
“In the email, whose subject line was ‘Contact the President,’ Delechiani said, ‘I, Dean Delechiani, am going to incapacitate/kill you – Donald John Trump – because you decided to kill children – and say it was war – when in fact – it is terrorism. God knows your actions and where you are,'” the office said.
Delechiae has been charged with interstate communication of threats against the President.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Palm Beach International Airport on May 2, 2026 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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According to the online site, he works in mechanical engineering at the FAA open payrollWhich tracks the salaries of federal employees.
Delechiani appeared in U.S. District Court in New Hampshire on Tuesday morning. Details of that hearing were not immediately available from the prosecutor’s office.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the hearing.
When the FAA was contacted for comment, it referred the request to prosecutors.
If convicted, Delechian faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Former FBI Director James Comey was charged in a federal indictment on April 28 with threatening to kill Trump by posting on Instagram a photo of shells arranged to form the number “86 47” on a North Carolina beach.
According to dictionaries, “86” is slang for ousting or removing someone, and Trump is the 47th president of the United States. Trump said last year that he believed Comey, a longtime adversary of his, was calling for his assassination.
Comey, who remains free without bond, has said he is innocent in that case, and his attorney has said he is seeking to dismiss the indictment on the grounds of retaliatory prosecution by the Justice Department.
Another defendant, Cole Thomas Allen, has been charged with trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on April 25.
That night, Secret Service agents tackled Allen after he broke into a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton Hotel, one floor above where Trump and top officials of his administration were dining with hundreds of reporters.
According to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Allen allegedly fired one shot from a firearm he was carrying that night, striking the protective jacket of a Secret Service agent.
Allen is being held without bond.