A Yucca Valley resident on Tuesday, June 3, was charged with three counts of threatening the life of Donald Trump by posting profanity-laced invectives to Facebook before and after Trump was elected president, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Thomas Eugene Streavel, 73, was arrested on Monday and pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Riverside. Streavel was released from custody after posting a $10,000 bond. Streavel faces a maximum of five years in federal prison for a conviction on any of the counts.

The name of an attorney who could speak on his behalf was not immediately known. Streavel could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Streavel does not have a documented criminal record in San Bernardino County.

Among the threats he is accused of making is one allegedly posted on Nov. 6, 2024, the day after Trump defeated President Joe Biden: “Trump is a dead man walking for the time being until a patriot like myself blows his (expletive) brains out in the very near future,” Streavel is accusing of writing.

Strevel’s brother, Yucca Valley resident James Streavel, repeated “Oh, my God” in a phone interview when a reporter informed him of the charges, noted they are felony accusations and advised him that the DOJ had announced the allegations to news media nationwide.

“All I want to say is, I know he wouldn’t kill him,” James Streavel said.

Thomas Streavel is also alleged to have posted these threats:

• Nov. 12: That he was “willing to make America great again and blow his (expletive) brains out.”

• Nov. 19: “Let me put a bullet right between the ears of your president-elect…That’s my purpose for living.”

• Nov. 28: “I’m praying for a successful assassination of your president-elect” and “My life’s mission is killing the worthless LOSER (expletive) and my mission starts tonight so watch yourself trump (sic) you are a dead (expletive) and I am your assassin.”

Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, declined to comment beyond the indictment that was unsealed Tuesday, including whether officials believe Streavel planned to act on the alleged threats, whether authorities had searched Streavel’s home, and what evidence, if any, they discovered.

“The type of rhetoric and threats made by this defendant are similar to those that led to an attempt on the President’s life last year,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote in a Justice Department news release. “There is no place for political violence or threats of violence in the United States. We will not hesitate to arrest and charge others who engage in similar criminal conduct.”

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department had not had any contact with Streavel before assisting with the arrest, spokeswoman Mara Rodriguez said Tuesday.

“In December 2024, personnel from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin Station responded swiftly to assist the United States Secret Service in investigating a series of violent online threats made against President-elect Donald Trump. Working closely with our federal partners, we helped identify the suspect, gather evidence, and support his indictment,” Rodriguez wrote in an email.