Republican pol nabbed in PH for death threats against election rival

William Braddock III dropped his bid for Florida’s 13th Congressional District, after recordings were leaked of him allegedly threatening to make rival Paulina Luna “disappear.” BI

A United States national wanted for making death threats against a fellow Republican political rival was arrested in the Philippines in a joint operation by the FBI and the Philippines Bureau of Immigration.

William Robert Braddock III, 39, who turned out to be  an undocumented alien in the Philippines, has an arrest warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Middle District Court of Florida.

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He was wanted for violating Section 875 of the United States Code, for threatening to kill or injure fellow Republican candidate for US Congress Paulina Luna and her associate.

Braddock dropped his bid for Florida’s 13th Congressional District, after recordings were leaked of him allegedly threatening to make Luna “disappear.” Luna is now, now a Congress member from the extreme right of the GOP.

He was arresred on Roxas Boulevard and brought to the Bureau of Immigration’s detention facility in Taguig City to await deportation,