The teenage son Rebekah Jones, the left-wing former state employee who accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of doctoring COVID-19 fatality data, was arrested last week for threatening to shoot up a school.
Citing a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office report, the Pensacola News-Journal reported that Jones’ son made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.
Investigators spoke to “multiple students” who had talked to the teen and others who saw the messages he had posted on social media. In those messages, he claimed:
- “I want to shoot up the school.”
- “If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.”
- “I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like.”
- “Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school.”
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The teenager reportedly wanted to target the school in mid-March but moved the date to March 31, which was four days after a woman who identified as a man murdered six people, including three children, in a school shooting in Nashville.
The News-Journal noted that during a detention hearing on Thursday, a judge found probable cause to allow the case to proceed and scheduled an arraignment hearing for May 3.
The teenager was placed on home detention release with a monitor. The judge also prohibited him from possessing any weapons, utilizing the internet for anything other than school, and from contacting anyone at the school.
Jones, who has a documented history of spreading falsehoods, tried to blame the arrest on DeSantis.
“My family is not safe,” Jones tweeted on Thursday. “My son has been taken on the gov’s orders, and I’ve had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety. THIS is the reality of living in DeSantis’ Florida. There is no freedom here. Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king.”
The News-Journal reported that Jones claimed that the arrest was retaliation for a lawsuit she recently filed against the Florida Department of Health and state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo in an effort to get her old job back.
The Free Press reported in December that Jones pled guilty to stealing confidential data from the department, which launched liberals’ claims that DeSantis had cooked the books to understate the number of COVID-related deaths.
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Yet in May 2022, the FDOH inspector general’s office released a report of its internal investigation that found Jones’ claims about DeSantis were “unfounded” and “unsubstantiated.”
Jones also lied about her initial lie in saying she was hired to scrub the data but did not and could not access the data she claimed to have doctored, according to records.
The lies continued when the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated her for illegally accessing the confidential state database. Jones claimed FDLE agents entered her home with guns drawn, and waved their weapons in her face. Body-cam footage quickly rendered that claim false.
In November, incumbent Republican Matt Gaetz crushed Jones, a Democrat, in the election for his Panhandle congressional seat.
A primary opponent sued to get Jones tossed off the ballot because she fibbed on election documents how long she had been a registered Democrat in Florida. But a state appeals court allowed her candidacy to continue, saying the fault was in how the law was worded.
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