Inmate behind Trump threats to get man deported charged: DA
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Left: Donald Trump speaks at the annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC, in June 2024 (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP). Center: Demetric Scott (Milwaukee County). Right: Ramon Morales Reyes (Department of Homeland Security).

A Wisconsin jail inmate allegedly got help from his mother, unbeknownst to her, while orchestrating an elaborate plot to get a Mexican man deported by the Trump administration before he could testify against the suspect, with cops saying he asked the mom to mail fake letters from the victim — threatening to kill President Donald Trump and “blow up the White House” and entire country “like 911 in New York,” according to prosecutors.

“I am not scared of the Trump Administration,” Demetric Scott, 52, allegedly wrote in one of the phony letters from victim Ramon Morales-Reyes, 54, who later had his name and face plastered on the Department of Homeland Security website by Secretary Kristi Noem after being arrested for the forged threats.

Law enforcement sources familiar with the matter told CNN and The Associated Press that federal officials knew that Morales-Reyes did not pen the letter that Noem and her office said he wrote and sent to an ICE office, but they chose to identify and publicly accuse him in a press release anyway. Time stamps on social media posts from Noem and the timing of the DHS press release both fall on the same day that a judge signed a search warrant for Scott’s jail cell in connection to the letters — May 28, according to court documents.

Scott was behind bars for allegedly committing armed robbery against Morales-Reyes.

The newly released letter was revealed in Scott’s criminal complaint, which was filed Monday by Milwaukee County prosecutors. Another letter that Scott allegedly sent in Morales-Reyes’ name was revealed by Noem and DHS last week.

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In the new letter, Scott claimed Morales-Reyes had family “with the Mexican Mafia” and that he was ready to “blow up the white house while your precious president is still inside,” according to the complaint.

“I have family that’s here from Nicaragua and they work harder than Americans,” Scott said. “You americans just rape your kids. Somone need to blow this entire country up like 911 in New York. Can’t you white understand we are tired of running its time to kill ICE Agents or be killed.”

Prosecutors say Scott made phone calls from jail to his mom and an acquaintance, asking them to mail envelopes to addresses where the letters were allegedly received. One conversation he had with an undisclosed person featured references to a “godd— illegal immigrant” that Scott wanted deported.

“They just need to pick his a— up,” Scott allegedly said. “I’m dead serious cause I got jury trial on July 15th. I got final pretrial on June 16th so if he is apprehended by the 16th, we can go into court and say, ‘Hey, he’s in custody now. Um, there is no reason for us to even continue the July 15th jury date.’ And the judge will agree cause if he gets picked up by ICE, there won’t be a jury trial so they will probably dismiss it that day. That’s my plan.”

In another call on May 24, Scott allegedly said: “I don’t want to take a chance and lose, I’m facing too much time. So, I told my lawyer, postpone this get everything we can get that way I can beat this motherf—ing case. I said, ‘cause the next time I go to court, I want to win.””

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