A Pennsylvania man was arrested for leaving sexually explicit and threatening messages for Gov. Mikie Sherrill last year.

Stephen M. Cilurso, a 72-year-old resident of Alden, PA, was charged with stalking and harassment by the New Jersey State Police on January 22.  He had allegedly left messages for Sherrill in October and November of last year.

The charges were filed in the Livingston Municipal Court — Sherrill’s congressional office is in Livingston — and then transferred to the Essex County Prosecutor.

Cilurso was arrested by the U.S. Marsal is Pennsylvania and is awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

In 2021, Cilurso was charged with leaving over a dozen harassing and lewd voicemails at the office of Rep. Madeline Dean, a congresswoman from Pennsylvania.  Those messages were also sexually explicit and referenced the Proud Boys and Dean’s support of impeaching President Donald Trump.  He told detectives that”when he gets into drinking, he has a dirty mouth.”

Cilurso pled guilty to four counts of harassment in 2023 and received a probation sentence.

(WHTM) — Days after federal agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Pennsylvania State Sen. Tim Kearney (D-Delaware) stood outside an office for one of the Keystone State’s most prominent Democrats, arguing he’s not doing enough.

“It’s going to take people in the street really trying to make a difference, which is one of the reasons that I’m here today,” Kearney said Wednesday while protesting outside U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s Philadelphia office. Fetterman did release a statement earlier in the day calling for President Donald Trump to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

But State House and Senate Democrats have been pushing for several proposals that would limit what Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can do in the state. One would ban them from wearing masks, another prohibits them from making arrests on state property, court houses, and schools, while a third would let residents sue the federal government if they violate constitutional rights.

“I would hope that my colleagues across the aisle would join us in calling for accountability and calling for common sense standards for these ICE operations that have clearly gone way out of hand,” said State Rep. Tarik Khan (D-Philadelphia).

Republicans in Harrisburg and Washington mostly reject such initiatives, and Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, pushed back against the measures in a statement.

“ICE officers are facing a 1300% increase in assaults because of dangerous, untrue smears by elected Democrats,” she said. “Just the other day, an officer had his finger bitten off by a [radical] left-wing rioter. ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities, and local officials should work with them, not against them. Anyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals is simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens.”

State Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman said safety is a top priority for the Senate Republican Caucus.

“Under the tenure of the Biden Administration, state and local officials across this country sounded the alarm regarding the straining of their resources, the scourge of fentanyl deaths, the tragedy of human trafficking, including children smuggled across the border, and the flow of illegal firearms and dangerous gang members,” he said in a statement. “Collaboration between state and federal government is critical as we work to recover from the disastrous border policies of the Biden Administration and seek to protect lawful citizens.”

Meanwhile, Kearny warned Republicans that insisting on resisting bills to rein in ICE may face voters in November.

“If this stuff doesn’t move, which it hasn’t moved so far, then that’s something we can campaign on,” he said.