Federal agents arrested a 27-year-old Illinois man who allegedly threatened to assassinate the president in a series of social media posts, including one in which he is accused of outright stating, "I'm going to kill Donald Trump ."

Derek S. Lopez, a former teaching assistant at Illinois State University, was taken into custody by federal agents this week and charged with one count of making threats against the president, authorities announced.

In a news release announcing Tuesday's arrest, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois said Lopez faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in federal prison.

According to the criminal complaint, authorities filed a complaint against Lopez with the FBI National Threat Operations Center on Sept. 15, stating that Lopez

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