A South Florida woman has pleaded guilty to threatening death against Vice President Kamala Harris
MIAMI – A South Florida woman has pleaded guilty to threatening death against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, pleaded guilty last week in Miami federal court to six counts of making threats against the vice president, according to court records. He faces up to five years in prison in a Nov. 19 sentence.
Phelps sent her husband, who was in jail, 30-second video clips of herself threatening to kill Harris in February, according to prosecutors. The videos show Phelps committing the threats, shouting cursing words, saying he had accepted $ 53,000 to carry out a “success” against the vice president and explaining that he would carry out the assassination within 50 days, according to the researchers.
Phelps recorded some of the clips herself and her children recorded others, officials said. After posting these videos, Phelps sent a photograph of herself with a firearm with a target blade at gunpoint. Two days later, Phelps applied for a concealed weapons permit. Phelps later told investigators he did not know what would have happened if they had not come to his home.