FAA employee charged with Trump death threat in New Hampshire

A Federal Aviation Administration employee in New Hampshire was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, whom he criticized for the war against Iran, the U.S. attorney’s office in Concord said Tuesday.

Dean DelleChiaie, 35, who was arrested Monday, allegedly conducted internet searches on his government work computer in late January for terms that drew the attention of the U.S. Secret Service, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Those subjects included “how to get a gun into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts against the President, the percentage of the population that wants the President dead, and the phrase ‘I am going to kill Donald John Trump,” according to an affidavit filed to support the criminal complaint against the Nashau resident.

DelleChiaie also searched for the locations of the homes of Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the affidavit said.

The FAA’s Information Technology department notified the Secret Service about those “concerning searches” after DelleChiaie took his FAA computer to the department “and requested to delete his search history off the device,” Secret Service Special Agent Nathanael Gamble wrote in the affidavit.

On Feb. 3, a Secret Service agent and a Nashua Police officer visited DelleChiaie’s apartment, where “he admitted to conducting the searches … and was remorseful,” the affidavit said.

“DelleChiaie stated that he realized he should not search these subjects and that it was crazy for him to do this on his work computer,” Gamble wrote.

He also said he was motivated to conduct the searches because he was “upset with the current administration based on multiple subjects, including the election, presidential pardons, and the ‘Epstein files.’ ”

Those files are Department of Justice documents about its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious sex offender.

During the interview, the Secret Service agent saw several items written on a whiteboard attached to DelleChiaie’s, including: “Calm down more;” “1-month no arrest by police;” “Go DC to office if they do not action;” “Say arrest me ‘I am going to murder Donald John Trump – per defense of oath,’ ” according to the affidavit.

He told the agent and police officer had had an interest in assassinations, “but he did conduct a search about assassinations because it was part of the cycle that was going on in his mind,” the affidavit said.

“DelleChiaie mentioned that he was depressed and sees a therapist and is engaged in Ketamine therapy to try to get better,” Gamble wrote. “DelleChiaie admitted that he drinks to ‘black out’ and that he used to drink every day. Dellechiaie said that he used cannabis daily and occasionally uses mushrooms.”