BENTON COUNTY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A Bentonville man arrested after allegedly putting threatening lyrics in his music, which he claims is part of a rap persona, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, according to court documents.

Reese Alexander Sullivan, 20, was arrested on Nov. 2 for first-degree terroristic threatening.

An affidavit said on Aug. 21, the FBI National Threat Operations Center received a tip from an anonymous person who claimed Sullivan was making concerning statements, including bomb threats and referring to acts of violence.

Lyrics in Sullivan’s music contained numerous threats of violence in the nine videos analyzed. The threats included statements about school shootings, bombing public events and shooting children.

“Each of the video’s audio was in the form of rap music. Statements and threats within the videos included racial statements about specific groups of people and killing them, bombing churches associated with a specific race, killing kids, raping children, bringing his gun to school and killing people of a specific ethnic group, shooting up his school because he was bullied, details of a plan about committing a school shooting, killing his grandmother, bombing a specific public event, killing the president and bombing the senate,” the affidavit said.

The FBI executed a search warrant on Oct. 31 at his apartment but no weapons or explosives were found, according to the affidavit.

Police interviewed Sullivan at his job and he admitted the music was his and that it was his character or persona he used to make rap videos.

He said he started writing and singing these songs when he was 17 years old and he does not believe the statement in the songs.

He also clarified that he does not hate the groups identified in the songs, he has not sexually abused children and he has no intent of committing the violent acts mentioned in his music.

Sullivan has an omnibus hearing set for Aug. 14 and is ordered not to use social media or make internet posts of a written, audio or video nature.

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