A State Patrol leader announced Monday that the agency plans to assign an investigator to exclusively handle threats against elected officials after incidents more than doubled between 2024 and 2025.

State Patrol Lt. Colonel Jeremy Geiger told the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security that 50 threats against lawmakers, executive officers and state offices have been fielded this year. That’s up from 19 in 2024. Of the threats fielded this year, 13 had resulted in criminal charges so far, he said.

“In the first part of December, we’ll be assigning and promoting a person, a sworn trooper, as a threat investigator working directly at the [Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] as a liaison to the Capitol security,” Geiger said. “The reason for that is what we’ve talked about in past committee hea

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