A Chicago woman was arrested Monday on federal charges alleging she threatened to kill former President Donald Trump and his 17-year-old son, Barron.
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed in Florida last week with transmitting threats to kill another person, which carries up to five years in prison. She was arrested in Chicago on Monday morning and appeared at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for a removal hearing in the afternoon.
Fiorenza, dressed in an Army-green tank top with a skull logo, shorts and sneakers, answered “Yes” when U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummings asked if she understood the charge against her. She waived her right to an identity hearing.
Prosecutors are seeking to have her detained pending a hearing in Florida because Barron Trump is a minor. Cummings scheduled a detention hearing for Wednesday.
The charges were first reported by the online newsletter CourtWatch.
The five-page complaint alleged that on May 21, Fiorenza emailed the headmaster of a Palm Beach County school and wrote, “I will state that I will shoot Donald Trump Sr. AND Baron Trump (sic) straight in the face at any opportunity that I get!”
She allegedly sent a similar email to the same headmaster threatening the younger Trump’s life two weeks later, according to the complaint.
Barron Trump has attended a private school in Palm Beach since his family left the White House, though the charges do not identify the school where the messages were allegedly sent.
In June, a U.S. Secret Service agent reached out to Fiorenza and arranged a meeting at the agency’s Chicago headquarters, where Fiorenza was shown copies of the emails, according to the complaint.
Fiorenza “confirmed that she intentionally wrote them and sent them via email” from her then-residence in southwest suburban Plainfield, Illinois, the complaint stated.
A Facebook page linked to Fiorenza and still publicly viewable stated she is a former social studies teacher and attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park, Illinois.
The profile contains numerous violent and anti-Trump images and claims, as well as references to the “elite organization” of the Illuminati.
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