Fox News: Florida man arrested for allegedly calling for Trump assassination on Facebook; Secret Service investigating

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Florida man arrested for allegedly calling for Trump assassination on Facebook; Secret Service investigating

A Florida man was arrested after allegedly calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump on Facebook. The Secret Service is investigating.......                    ...                        ...The Secret Service is investigating after a Florida man was arrested in West Palm Beach and charged with calling for the assassination of President You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Facebook.......Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, of West Palm Beach, was arrested after allegedly threatening the life of the president, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Police Chief Tony Araujo confirmed during a press conference Saturday.......Atkins is charged with felony intimidation, drug possession and smuggling contraband in a county detention center, according to jail records. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......A tip was called in to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login late Sunday, reporting Atkins was making violent threats against the president on Facebook.......A Palm Beach detective began working the case Monday and found "disturbing" posts, according to Araujo.......Some of the posts included, "Lincoln, JFK, Reagan, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and Trump - unfortunately, one is still alive"; "Bullets, please. Jesus, save America"; and "I've been banned from X because I said 'I hope and pray someone kills him. We haven't had an assassination in years.'"......The department secured a probable cause warrant and began surveillance, arresting Atkins near one of his homes at 7:30 p.m. Friday.......Officers found three bags of cocaine in Atkins' pocket at the time of the arrest, according to Araujo. ......While being interviewed, he admitted to writing the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login but said he was joking, authorities said......."Folks, this is not a joke. Nothing of that sort is a joke," Araujo said during the press conference.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The Secret Service was notified and is reviewing the case to determine whether there will be federal charges, the department said......."The U.S. Secret Service does not comment on matters involving protective intelligence," the agency wrote in an email to Fox News Digital Saturday. "What we can say is that the Secret Service investigates all threats against our protectees."......Authorities confirmed the FBI was also involved in the investigation.......Araujo said, in today's climate, people cannot make threats, even jokingly.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"We have incident after incident, example after example, of when these threats become real, and we take these very seriously," he said. "Did we avert something? You never know. I do know that we developed probable cause, we arrested Mr. Atkins and he's going to have to answer the charges."......Atkins' bond was set at $5,000 for the drug charges, but bond was denied for the threats against Trump, according to jail records....

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