Crime & Safety
GTPD Aids in Terroristic Threat Investigation in Texas
A New Jersey resident alerted the police department, which then informed Texas authorities who worked quickly to capture the suspect.
Gloucester Township Police helped authorities in Texas nab a man who allegedly made terroristic threats against a mosque.
Clayton Alexander Cansler, a 26-year-old Texas resident, said online that he was going to “shoot up a mosque,” citing his friend’s death in the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center as his motivation.
A New Jersey resident saw the post, alerted Gloucester Township Police, and police alerted the county sheriff’s office in Fort Bend, Texas.
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“Sheriff’s Deputies noted the suspect’s home is in close proximity to a Mosque and responded quickly to the home,” the office posted on Facebook.
Officers found him at the Sugar Land Municipal Airport, where he works, and arrested him.
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Cansler cooperated with the investigation, and no weapons were found.
He was charged with making terroristic threats.
Cansler remains in custody of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office and bond has been set at $ 10,000.
The attached images were posted on the Fort Bend Sheriff Office’s Facebook page.
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