Authorities have arrested the man accused of threatening to kill Babylon Bee founder Seth Dillon.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the development on X, stating: “Last week, our Office of Statewide Prosecution was notified of multiple death threats made to Jewish conservative media members who live in Florida.”

Following the notification, prosecutors secured an arrest warrant, which law enforcement then executed. The suspect, now in custody, faces “charges of extortion, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.”

User “zionistarescum,” who authorities now identify as 28-year-old Nicholas Ray, allegedly posted a disturbing message directly threatening Dillon.

You live in Houston, right? I’ve been in touch with law enforcement and they have some questions. pic.twitter.com/ApcZ0BV8Rf

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 13, 2025

The Daily Wire reviewed Ray’s alleged account and uncovered disturbing posts criticizing Israel and President Trump, as well as Republican lawmakers.

Ray’s arrest comes at a time plagued by a troubling surge in political violence. On Monday, Dillon published an article with the Free Press urging both sides, Right and Left, to take an introspective look at the ideology and policies they promote.

Dillon launched his satirical news site in 2016 in an effort to “speak truth through humor.”

The outlet grew into a major force with 2.2 million followers on Instagram and more than 5 million on X.

However, the company’s rise brought conflict. Before Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, the company suspended Dillon’s account over a post poking fun at USA Today’s “Woman of the Year.”

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Elon Musk reinstated the account seven months later when he assumed ownership of Twitter and rebranded it as X.

Most recently, the Babylon Bee found itself in court arguing over a bill signed by Gavin Newsom limiting the use of “deep fake images.”

After the court sided with the Babylon Bee, their attorney commented, “The court was right to rein in California’s blatant censorship. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates.”

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) announced on Tuesday that he will host a hearing on politically violent attacks to address the disturbing upward trend. This summer alone saw the murder of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and the assassination of Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk.

Schmitt stated, “The rise of political violence on the left is deeply disturbing and antithetical to American values, disturbs the free exercise of our constitutional rights, and is a threat to our constitutional order.”

President Donald Trump’s planned second meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin appears canceled after a phone call between top U.S. and Russian officials.

The White House said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a “productive call” with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, adding that “there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future,” the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” a White House official told the Post. “Therefore, an additional-in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “I don’t want to have a wasted meeting. I don’t want to have a waste of time.” Trump, however, left the door open for a second meeting with Putin.

“We’ll see what happens. We haven’t made a determination,” he added.

Trump held a “lengthy” phone conversation with Putin last week one day before he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. After the call, Trump announced that he and Putin agreed to meet in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine.

Trump had previously met with Putin in Alaska on August 15 to negotiate a deal between Russia and Ukraine. Following the Alaska summit, Putin has continued his attacks on Ukraine.

Trump has considered sending American-made Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which would allow Kyiv to fire at targets deep inside of Russia. During his meeting with Zelensky on Friday, however, Trump suggested that he wasn’t ready to provide Ukraine with the long-range cruise missiles. In an X post on Tuesday, Zelensky argued that “as soon as the issue of long-range capabilities for Ukraine became less immediate, [Russia’s] interest in diplomacy faded.”

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“The greater Ukraine’s long-range reach, the greater Russia’s willingness to end the war. These weeks reaffirmed it,” Zelensky added. “Discussion on Tomahawks turned out to be a major investment in diplomacy – we forced Russia to reveal that Tomahawks are the card they take seriously. We will continue engaging with Europeans and Americans on long-range capabilities.”

With the second round of Trump-Putin talks now appearing unlikely, there remain no signs that Moscow is interested in ending the war. Russia has continued its attacks on Ukraine, killing four people with strikes on Tuesday targeting Ukraine’s Chernihiv region that also left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power.

Trump is scheduled to meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Trump’s reported meeting with Rutte will come as European leaders are expected to discuss more economic sanctions on Russia during a meeting in Brussels. A statement put out by leaders from Ukraine, the U.K., Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Denmark, and the E.U. called for world leaders to “ramp up the pressure on Russia’s economy and its defense industry, until Putin is ready to make peace.”