MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a southwest Miami-Dade man on Monday after they said he made a social media post threatening Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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An arrest report states that Valentin Tomas Morales, 21, posted on X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — “I think im (sic) going to f---ing kill Ron DeSantis.”
The Florida Fusion Center identified and reported the post to the FDLE on Monday, the report states. Investigators didn’t say whether they believed anything specific motivated the threatening post.
Authorities said they went to Morales’ home in the gated Mahogany Isle neighborhood of The Hammocks and took him into custody on a charge of written threats to kill. He declined to speak with investigators.
As of Tuesday, Morales was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.