Culver City Police Department have arrested a suspect in regard to threats made against the Tik Tok offices on Bristol Parkway.
According to the CCPD, “Employees reported receiving a series of online threats across various social media platforms from a suspect identified as thirty-three-year-old Joseph Mayuyo, a resident of Hawthorne. On Friday, October 3, 2025, representatives [at TikTok] received an additional online threat via a social media platform in which Mayuyo threatened TikTok’s headquarters. Out of an abundance of caution, security evacuated the location.”
Police converged on his Hawthorne home Saturday, Oct.4. Mayuyo made more threats online and declared that he would not be taken alive.
Detectives obtained both arrest and search warrants. At approximately 10:10 p.m CCPD’s Emergency Response Team initiated contact with Mayuyo, while crisis negotiators engaged him in dialogue.
Crisis negotiators spent 90 minutes talking to him before he walked outside and surrendered, police said.
Mayuyo was booked into the Culver City Police Department Jail for California Penal Code 422, Criminal Threats. Detectives executed a search warrant at his residence, recovering “items of evidentiary value,” according to their statement.
It is not clear at this time whether Mayuyo had any prior connection to the social media company.
Judith Martin-Straw
