Overview

• Demetric Scott is charged with felony witness intimidation, identity theft and bail jumping for sending blue-ink letters threatening Trump in Ramón Morales-Reyes’s name.
• Court records show Scott admitted mailing the perfect-English threats from his jail cell to prompt ICE to detain Morales-Reyes and derail his testimony.
• Handwriting analysis and Morales-Reyes’s limited English proficiency confirmed he could not have authored the assassination threats.
• Morales-Reyes remains held at Dodge County Jail and is scheduled for a June 10 immigration hearing as his attorneys pursue a U-visa and other relief.
• Secretary Kristi Noem’s initial public endorsement of Morales-Reyes’s arrest remains uncorrected, prompting criticism from immigration advocates over due process.