DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

47-year old Enrique Figueroa, a resident in New York, was arrested after threatening on social media to kill President Luis Abinader who is in New York to attend the 76th UN General Assembly. Abinader is scheduled to speak on Wednesday, 22 September at the UN.

ABC News journalist was first to tweet: “A man arrested in NYC threatened to kill a world leader attending the UN General Assembly. Enrique Figueroa was charged with threatening a foreign official and making interstate threats against Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic, a source told ABC News.”

Figueroa had been active with threats against Dominicans in the past, including against the Green March protestors in New York City in 2018.

Figueroa was arrested on Sunday evening. NBC reports that a FBI-Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested and charged him in a criminal complaint Monday, 20 September...