The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Ronald Lee Syvrud after conducting a manhunt in Arizona for the convicted sex offender who allegedly threatened to kill former President Donald Trump.
Syrvud is the subject of numerous outstanding warrants for his arrest, including those for a DUI in Wisconsin and a hit-and-run in Arizona, according to Sheriff Mark Dannels of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office. Additionally, he is being pursued for neglecting to register as a sexual offender.
Syvrud is described as having white hair, green eyes, and spectacles. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 220 pounds. His most recent known location was Benson, AZ, and he is 66 years old.
Syvrud was convicted of second-degree sexual assault of a minor on April 6, 2001, and was subsequently added to Wisconsin’s sex offender registry. He is listed as having a lifetime registration and a variety of aliases.
“Public Safety consideration: Syvrud is being sought as an investigative lead for threats to kill a presidential candidate,” Dannels wrote. According to the New York Post, the presidential candidate in question is Donald Trump.
Trump spoke from the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Thursday afternoon, arguing that when he left office, he gave “Kamala Harris the strongest and most secure border in American history.
“When I left office, I gave Kamala Harris the strongest and most secure border in American history. These people have done an incredible job. They worked with lots of others. And if you came here illegally, you got caught and you were deported or put in jail, depending on what. In some cases, we put them in jail because we didn’t want, they were so violent, we didn’t want to take a chance that they’d come back,” Trump said.
“But generally, they were deported. And brought into countries that wouldn’t accept them before me. With me, they accepted them. They wouldn’t take him back, but with me they accepted them. I said, you’re going to have a lot of problems if you don’t. We ended catch and release. We had Remain in Mexico. The greatest possible — Remain in Mexico,” he added.
“How good was that? Everybody remained in Mexico until they were checked out and either they came in or not. Most of them didn’t qualify. Title 42, safe third agreements. And 500 miles of border wall that was very, very difficult to even think about getting over, around or under. The final gaps of the wall were about to be sealed. Then Kamala came in and dismantled every single Trump border policy and halted all wall construction,” Trump continued.
He declared, “And there it sits. But much of it has been sold. This is just a small example of what it was, what it is before they lift it up. So you can see on the ground behind me the sections of wall that taxpayers paid for a lot of money. But Kamala refused to put up. Just refused. She wouldn’t do it. Everybody called. I even made some calls. I said you got to put it up. You got to put it up. But she didn’t want it open. She wanted a wide open border.”