The FBI and Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a Shalimar man who threatened to kill Democratic Congressional candidate Rebekah Jones and her family in a voice message left on her cell phone last week. Jones sent the message to an Inweekly reporter over the weekend. She requested that we edit the audio to cut out the offensive language at the end.
Jones also received threatening text messages from the same man who didn’t try to disguise his cell number.
The threats came the same week Eugene Huelsman of Thousand Oaks, CA, was sentenced to six months of home confinement and five years of probation after phoning in threats to Congressman Matt Gaetz and his family after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
This post has created a buzz on Twitter and elsewhere with several disputing that Okaloosa County sheriff is investigating the call. Jones shared these text messages that were from the same number as the caller:
– “F$%K Jones! F$%k YOU! MATT GAETZ FOR THE WIN”
– “Matt Gaetz is going to beat you bc he doesn’t harass people like you! Plus women don’t belong as Governors or anyone like that bc y’all have too many personalities and too emotional to handle big decisions in life! Truth hurts! Don’t believe me then ask you husband bc he wears the pants and males(sic) all the big decisions in your house along with millions of others.”