Cochise County Sheriff's Office says it arrested man who made threats against Trump

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office said Thursday it has arrested a man who authorities say made threats on social media against former President Donald Trump, who was in the county visiting the southern border.

"The Cochise County Sheriff's Office was made aware of threatening statements made via social media by the subject Ronald Syvrud towards candidate Trump," Carol Capas, a department spokesperson, told The Arizona Republic. "As a result, additional information was developed confirming outstanding warrants for this subject, and a subsequent public release was issued."

The agency posted on Facebook that Syvrud, a 66-year-old Benson resident, had "outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI/Failure to Appear for DUI and from Graham County Arizona for Hit/Run and Felony Failure to Register as a Sex Offender."

The department posted an update at about 2:35 p.m. that Syvrud had been taken into custody without incident.

The alert came over a month after the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump during a rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.

In that incident, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump with an AR-15-style rifle from a nearby rooftop.

Authorities said he struck Trump in the ear, killed one attendee and critically injured two before a Secret Service agent fatally shot him.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Cochise County Sheriff's Office: Man who threatened Trump is arrested