Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, is being held in police custody with no charges, but accused of threatening to kill Senator Barack Obama if he wins the presidential elections. Police thought the man was serious and they arrested him for precaution, especially because is the first threat toward Obama.

Geisel made the threats against Obama while the senator was attending a bail-bondsman training class in Miami, on July 21.

Geisel colleagues were interviewed by prosecutors. One of them said that he heard Geisel saying he hated Bush and that he would like to pull a bullet in the president’s head.

Miami-Dade police received a report of the threat and that is how the Secret Service caught Geisel. When he was interviewed by the police, the man denied all the accusations about making those threats.

 Still, he told the agent that he would “simply shoot him (Obama) with a sniper rifle,” adding that he was joking. Geisel has been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder even if he claimed to have been in a mental-health facility.

When prosecutors searched Geisel’s car and hotel room, they found rounds of ammunition, a machete, tear gas and several knives. Yet, he said that he had used the knives for protection and the machete was for cutting brush in Maine.

Raymond Hunter Geisel’s court appearance will be on August 18 and his maximum penalty for this kind of threat is five years in prison. At the time of investigation, Senator Barack Obama was in Florida.