Meet Marco Antonio Aguayo. We know he's twenty-two years old, and we know he's a resident of Anaheim, California.
We also know he's a sicko who threatened Vice President JD Vance and his family when they visited Disneyland while on a family vacation to California last summer. And we know this because of a criminal complaint filed Wednesday against Aguayo by the federal government, which alleges Aguayo posted to social media that pipe bombs had been placed around the amusement park ahead of the Vance family's arrival.
Aguayo is accused of also posting this chilling message: "Good luck finding all of them on time there will be bloodshed tonight and we will bathe in the blood of corrupt politicians." These threats were allegedly posted on the Disneyland Instagram account.
Here are the three threatening messages allegedly posted by Aguayo:
“Pipe bombs have been placed in preparation for J.D. Vance’s arrival,” the first comment read.
“It’s time for us to rise up and you will be a witness to it,” read the second.
“Good luck finding all of them on time there will be bloodshed tonight and we will bathe in the blood of corrupt politicians,” read the third.
Local law enforcement and an agent from the U.S. Secret Service visited Aguayo on July 12, 2025, to question him about the posts. He initially denied making them, using the old "my account was hacked" chestnut; he eventually admitted that he had made the posts, but forgot to delete them, as he had intended to do, before they were seen. That might be believable, but still extremely serious, had it been one post. But three? That's a deliberate threat, even if there were no pipe bombs planted in the park.
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“He claimed that he intended it merely as a joke to provoke attention and laughter,” the criminal complaint says. “AGUAYO stated he contemplated deleting the post but ultimately forgot to do so.”
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The complaint details how the Secret Service agent investigating the threats to the Vance family was able to track down Marco Antonio Aguayo. The agent was able to connect an email address to the Instagram account making the vile statements on the Disneyland page; Google subscriber records were then used to identify Aguayo, along with two phone numbers. The suspect consented to have his phone searched, and that leads us to the charges.
Marco Antonio Aguayo now faces a federal charge of making a threat against the president and successors to the presidency. From the criminal complaint:
For all the reasons described above, there is probable cause to believe that AGUAYO violated 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Threat against President and Successors to the Presidency).
It's not clear at this point if Marco Antonio Aguayo is in federal custody, nor if he has retained counsel.
We'll keep you updated on this story as events warrant.
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