Texas man arrested for allegedly making bomb threats outside ICE facility

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Authorities successful Dallas arrested a 36-year aged antheral who the Department of Homeland Security says issued weaponry threats against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) installation connected Monday.

Shortly aft 6:30 p.m. Monday, Bratton Dean Wilkinson allegedly approached information officers and showed them what helium claimed to beryllium a "detonator" connected his wrist, prompting a shelter-in-place for ICE's Dallas Field Office, according to a elder DHS official. The Dallas nonmigratory allegedly approached the entranceway of the installation and claimed helium had a weaponry successful his backpack. 

An serviceman with the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Services who was stationed extracurricular the tract bureau called 911, according to a elder DHS official. 

The Dallas Police Department dispatched a weaponry squad to the scene, aboriginal arresting the antheral connected charges of allegedly making terroristic threats. According to instrumentality enforcement officials, Wilkinson was transferred to the Dallas County Jail. Police issued an all-clear astatine 7:19 p.m. section time, little than an hr aft the incidental began.

Law enforcement officials archer CBS News the U.S. Attorney's Office successful the Northern District of Texas is looking into pursuing national charges. 

CBS News has reached retired to Wilkinson for comment.

The incidental comes conscionable 2 weeks aft a threatening missive with a non-hazardous achromatic powdery substance was sent to an ICE bureau successful New York City. Sources told CBS News New York determination were a full of 5 envelopes received with letters containing "anti-ICE rhetoric."

Last Wednesday, an anti-ICE protester was charged with battle and demolition of national property successful San Francisco aft the antheral allegedly slashed the tyre of a authorities conveyance and threatened to stab a instrumentality enforcement serviceman during a targeted instrumentality enforcement operation. 

According to tribunal filings, Adrian Guerrero made repeated threats against instrumentality enforcement successful San Francisco, allegedly warning, "I'm going to f*ck you up," and "I'm going to spell aft your family."

The Department of Homeland Security said Guerrero was portion of a radical of astir 15 to 20 convulsive rioters who assaulted, grabbed, punched, and capsicum sprayed ICE agents.

ICE says instrumentality enforcement officials wrong the bureau person faced a 1,000% summation successful assaults against them since the opening of the Trump administration, arsenic President Trump looks to dramatically ramp up arrests.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons told CBS News connected Friday that the summation successful convulsive protests targeting ICE officials has impacted the mode migration agents train and hole for targeted operations. 

"We person to look astatine each those scenarios," Lyons said. "We're seeing evidently antithetic tactics being employed by these protesters, truthful we person to reevaluate fixed these existent assaults – spot what the origin of it was, and past retool our grooming to guarantee that the adjacent serviceman is prepared for immoderate benignant of concern that tin travel up."

Lyons defended his agents' determination to deterioration masks portion performing instrumentality enforcement duties. 

"If you look astatine the past administration, they didn't person to deterioration them," Lyons said successful an interrogation past week. "The opening of this medication we didn't person to deterioration them. But the toll that it's taken connected the officers from the doxing, from the brainsick rhetoric of threats against ICE, against their families. While I'm not a proponent of it, I'm not going to halt our agents from doing thing that's going to support them harmless and their families safe. To me, that's fig 1 priority."