A Toronto man has been charged with threatening the life of Mayor Rob Ford.

This is the second person charged with making death threats against Ford.

Robert Melville Dunlop was arrested Monday morning. The 46-year-old turned himself in to police at 52 Division just after 7:30 a.m. and was charged with threatening bodily harm and threatening death, Const. Tony Vella told the Star.

Dunlop is accused of posting a threat of bodily harm on Ford’s Facebook account on July 27, and of sending a message to Ford’s Twitter account on Aug. 1, threatening his death.

“It was in relation to killing him,” Vella said of the allegations. “There were sufficient grounds to lay the charges.”

The mayor’s spokesperson did not respond to an interview request Tuesday afternoon.

Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday told the Star he was not aware of any new threats made against Ford.

“I certainly don’t like to hear of these things,” Holyday said. “You just never know these days where these people are coming from.”

Holyday said he didn’t know of any increased security around the mayor other than at the executive committee meeting two weeks ago when Ford first disclosed a threat against him.

In July, 56-year-old Anthony Vella (no relation to Const. Vella) was charged with threatening death — the first such threat against the mayor.

Vella, who has no prior record, was released on $500 bail. Conditions were put on his release, including that he not come within 200 metres of City Hall (except to attend court dates nearby), and that he “abstain from communicating directly or indirectly with Mayor Robert Ford.”

After Vella’s arrest was made public, Ford told reporters he did not take the threat “that seriously.”

With files from Daniel Dale