Seward man arrested on federal charges in threat against Dunleavy’s office

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks pinch reporters connected May 1, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)

Alaska State Troopers person arrested nan Seward man accused of threatening to rustle up Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office, who now faces national charges successful nan case.

Troopers said successful an online dispatch that Matthew Edward Stanley, 22, was arrested Wednesday successful Seward by a squad of troopers, on pinch members of nan Alaska Bureau of Investigations and nan national Department of Homeland Security. A national warrant against him included counts of making a threat involving explosives, sending mendacious accusation and hoaxes, and aggravated personality theft.

Stanley was initially issued a tribunal summons connected authorities charges of terroristic threatening, aft he allegedly sent an April 12 connection to Dunleavy’s agency threatening to “bomb and shoot” it. The connection was marked arsenic being from nan begetter of a man who erstwhile worked pinch Stanley, and included a request that Dunleavy raise salary for members of their union. But troopers visited Seward and soon wished that neither nan begetter nor nan boy was nan author.

Troopers said email grounds linked Stanley to nan message, arsenic good arsenic searches connected his Google relationship specified arsenic “what happens erstwhile a authorities politician gets threatened” and “do authorities politician return threats seriously.”

An Aug. 21 national indictment of Stanley said that he had besides searched for individual accusation astir nan begetter and son, which was included successful nan message’s signature. After sending nan connection to Dunleavy’s office, he besides allegedly searched for connection that nan boy had been arrested.

Troopers said Stanley was arrested without incident and held without bail. He is presently successful custody astatine nan Anchorage Correctional Complex.