EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Puopolo, a South Florida man who says he is now “homeless,” was arrested at an area Subway restaurant after posting a video on Twitter saying he planned to kill President-elect Donald Trump.
Puopolo, 51, is being held without bail on state charges of threatening harm against a public servant. During the video, Puopolo said he planned on traveling to Washington to do harm to Trump during his inauguration.
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A Miami Beach police report released Wednesday identified the suspect as 51-year-old Dominic Puopolo. Jail records show Puopolo is being held without bail on state charges of threatening harm against a public servant. Court records do not list a lawyer for him. The police report says Puopolo on Monday posted a video on his Twitter account stating that he would “be at the review/inauguration and I will kill President Trump, President-elect Trump” while in Washington. The report says he was arrested a short time later at a Miami Beach Subway restaurant and admitted to officers he had posted the threatening video. h/t jacksonville
Police say Puopolo told them he is homeless, yet he has a Twitter account. Go figure.
THECOUNT.COM has learned, Puopolo appears to be the same man whose mother, Sonia Mercedez Morales Puopolo, was murdered while traveling on one of the planes terrorists flew into the World Trade Center.
“I tried very hard after 911 to move on and find some happiness, [but] it’s been sort of a roller coaster,” he said in 2011. “Recently, I’ve understood that something was wrong and that I needed to talk to somebody about it.”