Secret Service Arrests Woman Threatening To Shoot Former US President Donald Trump And His Son Barron
JAKARTA - A woman was arrested by the Secret Service on Monday after prosecutors accused her of sending several threatening emails to a school in Florida, threatening to kill former President Donald Trump and his teenage son, Barron, law enforcement officials said.
"I will shoot Donald Trump Sr. and Barron Trump right on his face at every opportunity I get," wrote Tracy Fiorenza, who allegedly sent an email to the principal at Palm Beach on May 21, 2023, according to a criminal complaint filed earlier this month in Florida., reported CBS News August 22.
A few days later, court documents stated Fiorenza again sent an email to the unnamed school official, "I will fire bullets into Baron Trump's head with his father to DEFEND HIMSELF!"
Secret Service agents in Chicago interviewed him on June 14, 2023, according to court records, and during that time he admitted to having written the threatening messages from his home in Illinois.
Fiorenza was present at Chicago's federal court on Monday and is likely to be transferred to Florida, where the charges against him were filed. The detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Trump's spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding this threat. Even so with lawyer Fiorenza who could not immediately be questioned for comment.
The arrest came days after a Texas woman was detained after leaving a threatening voicemail on the phone of federal judge Tayna Chukan's office, who oversaw the prosecution of Jack Smith's special adviser to Trump in Washington, DC.
Citing Reuters, the polarized violence and political threats in the United States have escalated in recent years, suggesting such violence was the worst since the 1970s.
Sources told CBS News, US Marshals Service in recent weeks has increased the safety of judges.