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On April 5, 2023, the 13-year-old son of a Florida whistleblower who had challenged Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on COVID-19 data in 2020 was put under "home detention" for allegedly threatening to shoot people at his former middle school.
He had been arrested the day before. Until his release to home detention after a court appearance, according to a Miami Herald story on April 6, he was being held at the Escambia Regional Juvenile Detention Center, a 50-bed state-run lockup in Pensacola. The newspaper said Rebekah Jones, the former data curator at the Florida Health Department, and her son live in Santa Rosa County, just east of Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle.
Referring to the incident report, the Herald said the 13-year-old was arrested on suspicion of "written [or] electronic threats" of a "mass shooting [or] terrorist act."
On April 6, Jones implied in a tweet that police deliberately hid information related to her teen son's arrest.
"JFC. I just found out via@MiamiHerald that police released a redacted version of their report that specifically hid that the messages sent came from an account that was NOT my son's," tweeted Jones. "I guess they had to have a plan for the blowback for arresting a 13 year old for memes."
(Image via Rebekah Jones' Twitter)
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