A South Florida dessert chef threatened President Trump's life on Facebook, cops say
A West Palm Beach caterer and dessert chef sits in Palm Beach County Main Detention Center after his Friday night arrest over social media posts the FBI and local police said count as threats to kill President Donald Trump.
West Palm Beach police also claim they found cocaine in the car with 46-year-old Shannon Atkins during the arrest.
Atkins is charged with written or electronic threats to kill or do bodily injury; possession of cocaine; and introducing a controlled substance in a county detention facility. Online court records say his bond is $10,000 for the latter two charges. But, the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office has made a motion for Atkins to remain under pretrial detention, which Judge Daliah Weiss granted Saturday pending a pretrial detention hearing.
There might also be federal charges.
According to Facebook screenshots released by West Palm Beach police, Atkins made the following posts:
▪ On Jan. 14, he put 'Unfortunately, one is still alive' over a social media post that had pictures of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan and President Trump with, 'All stood up to Democrats. All were shot.'
▪ On Jan. 19, at 9:59 a.m., he put 'Bullets please. Please Jesus. Save America!' over a post mourning Trump's inauguration the following day.
▪ At 11:04 a.m. the same day, he posted 'I've been banned from X because I said I hope and pray someone kills him. History is suppsoed [Sic] to repeat itself. We haven't had an assassination in years' followed by a emojis of eye rolling; laughing into tears; wide-eyes; and a shrug.
On his Big Mama's House of Sweets Instagram account, Atkins says he graduated from Johnson & Wales' College of Culintary Arts and notes his 2016 win in the Flavors of Wellington for Best of Taste. Atkins ran Big Mama's House of Sweets from 2016 through 2020 and, now, state records say, runs Big Mama's House of Sweets, Catering & More out of his home.
It was near that home that West Palm cops say they stopped Atkins Friday night around 7:30 p.m. He's been under investigation by the agency since Monday, after an Okeechobee reported Atkins posts to the FBI National Threat Operations Center.
'During the interview with detectives, Atkins admitted making the posts,' West Palm Police said.
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