A Myrtle Beach man was arrested Friday by the FBI for making hate-based threats against a news reporter and threatening to kill her and her family.

Austin Suman, 35, is accused of making a series of violent and hate-based threats over Facebook on Nov. 8, 2024, to the New York reporter after he was upset by her reporting on his arrest, an FBI news release said.

“Austin Suman allegedly made numerous threats and racial slurs to a local news reporter to file a personal complaint against her for her prior reporting of his earlier arrest,” FBI Deputy Director James E. Dennehy said in the release. “His alleged threats to inflict significant harm with firearms and explosives were delivered with intimidation and prejudice. Hiding behind a screen will not stop the FBI’s pursuit of those who target others with hateful messages of violence and death.”

Suman sent messages that said “I will end your family” and also threatened to blow up the victim’s home, according to the release.

Suman repeated ethnic slurs against people of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish descent and said the messages, “(D)umb mexican” and “We will deport all of your family,” the message said.

Suman is charged with threatening interstate communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; intentionally making a threat involving explosives, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison; and interstate stalking, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Suman will be transferred to the Southern District of New York to appear in federal court.