A Florida nurse has been arrested this week after authorities allegedly threatened to assassinate Vice President Harris.
A criminal complaint filed against her alleges that Niviane Petit Phelps made several threats against Harris by means of a computer application to the man of the nurse, who is in prison, NBC 6 report.
The messages appeared in the form of videos in which Phelps allegedly boasted against Harris, claiming that she had been paid to assassinate the vice president.
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“I’m going to the gun, just for your ass, until you leave the chair,” Phelps apparently said in another clip.
SSpecial Agent David Ballenger was told about the threats in early March, and a secret service agent was assigned to the case, CNN report.
Phelps is charged with threatening the vice president.
Heroeia Petit, Phelps’ mother, told the local outlet she hoped the charges would be dismissed because her daughter was’ sick ‘and’ did not even know what she was doing ‘.
“Do not punish her … because she listened to what people were saying to her,” Petit said. “She is desperate. She has nothing to do. Her husband has been in prison for ten years, two children. The house, she lost everything. ‘
Jackson Health, where Phelps has been working since 2001, said she was suspended without pay until they could complete her termination.
A Phelps public defender did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.