{"id":226732,"date":"2025-07-17T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=226732"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:53:37","slug":"maryland-reserve-officer-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-her-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=226732","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Reserve Officer Arrested for Threatening to Kill Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Maryland reserve police officer faces federal charges for threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, her family, and staff over multiple calls made from his workplace. The threats spanned more than a year and prompted his arrest by U.S. Capitol Police and local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcde <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> Threats against elected officials put public servants and their communities at risk, raising concerns about safety and political violence in an increasingly divided nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>What\u2019s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seth Jason, 64, of Edgewater, Maryland, was arrested for making repeated death threats to Greene\u2019s offices in Georgia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calls originated from Voice of America studios in Washington, D.C., where Jason worked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Charges include threatening a federal official, kidnapping threats, and harassment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2696\ufe0f <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jason served as an unarmed reserve officer since 2016 with no police authority.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The maximum prison terms for his charges range from two to 10 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=46]\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Maryland reserve police officer faces federal charges for threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, her family, and staff over multiple calls made from his workplace. The threats spanned more than a year and prompted his arrest by U.S. Capitol Police and local authorities. \ud83d\udcde Why It Matters: Threats against elected officials put public servants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":218207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"large","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8685,18535],"class_list":["post-226732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-seth-jason","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}