Main: President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026, en route to return to Washington (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin). Inset: Megan Utz (U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Alabama).
A 36-year-old woman in Alabama is accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump, allegedly warning she would "put a bullet through him" if he attended an Alabama-Georgia football game.
Megan Lorraine Utz, of Courtland, was charged in a two-count federal indictment filed Oct. 22 with threatening the president and transmitting a threatening communication across state lines, authorities announced.
According to a criminal complaint, Utz shared a news article on Facebook on Oct. 5 about Trump's planned appearance at the Oct. 10 game in Tuscaloosa and added a message: "He's not allowed in my stadium! I'll put a bullet through him if he dares."
The article had been posted to the official Facebook page of Huntsville, Alabama, CBS affiliate WHNT.
Federal investigators linked the account, which used the name "Kase Utz," to Utz by comparing its profile photo with her Alabama driver's license photo. The images depicted the same person and both showed "a distinctive neck tattoo," the complaint says. Meta, Facebook's parent company, also provided the profile owner's date of birth, which matched Utz's driver's license, along with recent location data tied to an address in Florence, Alabama.
On Oct. 6, federal agents, accompanied by local police, went to the Salvation Army in Florence, where employees said Utz had left in a light blue, two-door pickup truck and might be at a nearby "squatting house."
Federal agents found the truck outside the house and knocked on the front door. Utz allegedly answered, opening the door briefly before shutting and locking it. A man inside gave agents verbal permission to enter and search the residence. As officers cleared the house, a different man told them Utz fled on foot and pointed in the direction she went. She was arrested on an unrelated warrant for harassing communications and authorities seized her cellphone.
In an interview after receiving her Miranda rights, Utz allegedly told investigators she could not recall the last time she accessed Facebook, then claimed her phone had been hacked. From the complaint:
I asked Utz, "Why did you make that post?", referring to the post threatening to put a bullet through President Trump. Utz responded, "I just wanted my phone scanned… and the next time that this happens, somebody always gets hurt and someone always dies." I asked, "Whenever you make a post like that?" Utz replied, "Whenever somebody gets in my phone." I then asked, "So you're saying somebody got in your phone and made that post?" Utz stated, "I'm telling you, I've got screenshots of malware apps that take my password and load it into another app… and then load it into this little file. There is a file in my phone that says 'QM,' and in its description it says 'exception,' and this is the second time I've had to delete it."
Utz continued, allegedly claiming there was "malware" and "cyber stuff" on her phone that "hacks into government systems," but said nobody would listen to her. She then asked the agent, "How am I going to shoot him?"
Utz is scheduled to appear in court for her arraignment on Nov. 4.
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