DETROIT — Federal agents arrested a former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student at Detroit Metropolitan Airport who flew to America from Copenhagen on Friday after threatening students, faculty and staff members at his alma mater and vowing to hide the flesh of their children in hamburger meat, according to federal court records chronicling the latest violent threat posed to a college campus.
Arvin Raj Mathur, 32, is in the St. Clair County Jail and awaiting a detention hearing Tuesday in federal court in Detroit after being charged with emailing threats to nine people, including graduate students and professors in the university's Department of Anthropology. He made an initial appearance in federal court Saturday and is being held temporarily without bond.
Mathur was charged in a federal criminal case that was unsealed in Wisconsin on Wednesday, three weeks after a Lansing man killed three Michigan State University students and wounded five others. The records were filed amid a rise in extremism and after a string of federal criminal cases in recent weeks in Detroit involving threats to kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, law enforcement officers and those in the LGBTQ+ community, and Jewish politicians, including Attorney General Dana Nessel.
