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The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Concord announced Tuesday that a Federal Aviation Administration employee in New Hampshire has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill President Donald Trump, who criticized the war on Iran.
Dean Delekiaie, 35, who was arrested on Monday, is suspected of conducting Internet searches on his government computer in late January for terms that would come to the attention of the U.S. Secret Service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to an affidavit filed in support of criminal charges against the Nashaw residents, those topics “included how to get guns into federal facilities, past assassination attempts against the president, the percentage of the population who want the president dead, and the phrase ‘I’m going to kill Donald John Trump.'”
Delekiaie also searched the homes of Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to the affidavit.
The FAA’s Information Technology Division notified the Secret Service “regarding the searches” after Delekiai brought an FAA computer into the department and “requested that the search history be deleted from the device,” Secret Service Special Agent Nathanael Gamble said in an affidavit.
On Feb. 3, Secret Service agents and Nashua police officers went to Delekiaie’s apartment, where “he admitted to conducting the search and expressed remorse,” the affidavit states.
“DelleChiaie realized I shouldn’t be searching for these subjects and said it was crazy to do this on my work computer,” Gamble wrote.
He also said he was motivated to carry out the raid because he was “angry with the current administration based on multiple topics, including the election, presidential pardons, and the ‘Epstein file.'” ”
These files are documents related to the Justice Department’s investigation into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
During the interview, Secret Service agents observed several items written on a whiteboard mounted in Delekiaie’s home, including: “I haven’t been arrested by the police in a month.” “If you don’t take action, please take DC to your office,” according to the affidavit.
He told investigators and police officers that he was interested in the assassination, “but he did investigate it because it was part of a cycle that was going on in his mind,” the affidavit states.
“Mr. Delrechiaie stated that he was seeing a therapist for depression and was undergoing ketamine therapy in an attempt to improve,” Gamble wrote. “Derekiaie admitted that he was drinking alcohol to ‘decompress’ and that he did so every day. Derekiaie stated that he used marijuana daily and also occasionally used mushrooms.”
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at Palm Beach International Airport on May 2, 2026 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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According to the affidavit, the man admitted to owning a handgun that was kept in a safe in his apartment, as well as another handgun and a hunting rifle that were at a friend’s house.
Then, on April 21, DelleChiaie used his personal email to send an email to a public address at the White House with the subject line “Contact the President,” the affidavit said.
“I, Dean Delekiaye, am going to incapacitate and kill you, Donald John Trump, because you have decided to kill children, and you say it’s war, but it’s actually terrorism,” the email read, according to the affidavit.
“God knows what you do and where you are,” the email read.
Dellechiaie is charged with interstate communication of threats against the president.
He works for the FAA in mechanical engineering, according to Open Payrolls, an online site that tracks federal employee salaries.
Delrechiaie appeared in U.S. District Court for 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.
The FAA was asked to comment on details of Mr. Delekiaie’s current job status, and referred the request to prosecutors.
If convicted, DelleChiaie could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
On April 28, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on federal charges of threatening to kill President Trump after posting a photo of seashells arranged in the numbers “86 47” on Instagram on a North Carolina beach.
According to the dictionary, “86” is a slang term meaning to kick out or exclude someone, and Trump is the 47th president of the United States. President Trump said last year that he believed Comey, a longtime enemy, was calling for his assassination.
Mr. Comey is free without bail, but maintains he is innocent in the case, and his lawyers have said they will seek to have the charges dismissed, citing retaliatory prosecution by the Justice Department.
Another defendant, Cole Thomas Allen, is accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on April 25.
That night, Allen was tackled by Secret Service agents after forcing his way through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The hotel was upstairs from where Trump and senior administration officials were dining with hundreds of journalists.
That night, Allen allegedly fired a shot from a shotgun he was carrying, striking the Secret Service agent’s protective vest, said Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Allen is being held without bail.
