A former Chicago social studies teacher who was arrested for threatening to shoot former President Donald Trump and his son Barron “right in the face” is accused of also stalking the 17-year-old at his high school in Florida.
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, traveled to West Palm Beach in March and began asking questions about the former first child outside the elite Oxbridge Academy, police records obtained by the Chicago Tribune show.
A security guard who spotted him at the school called 911 on March 7, telling police officers he was a “known stalker of high-profile students.”
But when deputies arrived on the scene, Fiorenza claimed she was only trying to talk to the school’s principal because she had “conducted her own investigation” into whether Barron Trump was at the school.
The teacher was eventually released with a warning and asked to leave the school premises.
Just a few hours later, a Secret Service agent found him at a nearby gas station and took him back to his hotel.
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, is accused of stalking Barron Trump’s former first child, 17. Facebook / Tracy Fiorenza
He had previously harassed people at Oxbridge Academy, making several calls in October alleging that school officials were “not following protocol,” authorities said.
By May, Fiorenza emailed the school’s principal saying, “I will state that I will shoot Donald Trump Sr. AND Barron Trump right in the face any chance I get!”
He followed that up with a second email on June 5 saying he would “send a bullet” to Barron’s head “with his father IN SELF DEFENSE [sic],” according to an affidavit submitted by a US Secret Service agent.
Police records show Fiorenza showed up at the teenager’s school and started asking him questions.GC Images
The US Secret Service contacted Fiorenza later that month to arrange a meeting at the Chicago field office, and when Fiorenza was presented with the email, he admitted to having sent it from his home in Plainfield, Illinois, the complaint said.
A subsequent investigation found that Fiorenza had tried to “reach out to people working in the White House” under Trump starting in 2018, and other correspondence with government officials and celebrities claimed she was being attacked by “bad actors,” prosecutors alleged.
He also allegedly claimed that Donald Trump was the leader of a pedophile ring and that the federal government followed his former students in Chicago and used “deep sexual stimulation on them.”
In an email to the school’s principal in June, Fiorenza threatened to shoot Trump and his son in the face.REUTERS
In fact, his public Facebook profile featured several anti-Trump posts and conspiracy theories about Hollywood’s elite pedophile gang.
Some even showed Trump hanging from a tree.
“The threat here was very violent,” federal prosecutor Adam Rosenbloom said at a court hearing Wednesday as he argued he was being held without bond.
He acknowledged mental health issues may be at play, but said the community may not be safe if he is released on bond.
Fiorenza was removed from the premises of the Oxbridge Academy, but Secret Service agents found her nearby just hours later. Google Maps
Rosenbloom argued his previous encounter at the school showed “this is not an idle threat from behind a keyboard.”
But Fiorenza interjected, doubling down on her claim that the school was not following protocol.
“I’ve been contacting schools for years, trying to get them to comply with the mandated reporting protocol,” he said. “People aren’t trained in the technology involved… I’ll hand out flyers to parents warning them before school starts because no one listens to me.”
It’s unclear what protocols he believes the $38,500-a-year school may have violated.
Fiorenza claimed in court Wednesday that Barron Trump’s school had violated protocol. Facebook / Tracy Fiorenza
His court-appointed attorney also argued, “There is nothing to show that he was actually an aggressive person.”
He added that Fiorenza said “the psychotronic weapon was communicating directly into his head, and he was just trying to stop it.”
“He would never go near Barron Trump because he’s afraid of him,” the lawyer said. “It’s all a bit strange but it doesn’t say that he’s dangerous.”
A federal judge eventually ordered that Fiorenza remain in custody in Illinois pending extradition to the Southern District of Florida.
He was charged with sending threats to kill or injure another person in interstate commerce, a rap that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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