A Missouri woman has been arrested after authorities say she stole a firearm from her father and allegedly planned to use the weapon to assassinate President Donald Trump, as reported by the Blaze.
Deputies with the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office arrested Johnetta Parsons on January 4 in Thornfield, Missouri, a small community located about an hour east of Branson.
The arrest followed reports that Parsons had taken a handgun belonging to her father, Johnny Schofield.
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According to police reports obtained by Blaze News, Schofield first contacted authorities on December 8 to report that a firearm had been taken from his home.
He told deputies that “he believed his daughter, Johnetta, had stolen a pistol from his nightstand.” Schofield also reported that she had left the residence with the gun still in her possession.
The weapon was identified as an SCCY CPX 9mm caliber handgun. After the report was filed, the firearm was entered as stolen in the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System the same day.
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Nearly a month later, on January 3, the Columbia Police Department located the missing firearm.
According to a supplemental narrative report from an Ozark County sheriff’s deputy, two individuals arrived at a Columbia police station with a vehicle that was “packed with items,” they said, belonging to a friend identified as Johnetta.
The two individuals told officers they had agreed to drive Parsons to St. Louis to drop her off, but said she had left her belongings in their vehicle.
“One of the items was a firearm, which was identified as the stolen firearm,” the supplemental narrative report stated.
A report from the Columbia Police Department said that two women told officers that a person identified as “Johnetta Parson” had “stashed multiple bags and boxes” inside their vehicle and later “began to text them pertaining to a gun being within her property.”
During that time, Parsons was also communicating with her daughter, Branetta Mcnece. According to the police report, Mcnece told officers that her mother was experiencing a mental crisis.
The report states that Parsons admitted to her daughter that she had stolen the firearm and intended to use it to carry out an attack.
According to Mcnece, Parsons admitted that “she had stolen the gun from a family member in Ozark County and was now intending on using it to kill President Trump,” the CPD report said.
An Ozark County deputy summarized the situation in a report, writing that Parsons “was planning to take the stolen pistol and kill President Trump once she secured a bus ride from the Greyhound station.”
Later on January 4, Parsons returned to her father’s residence. According to the deputy’s report, Schofield said she arrived home “upset and irate” and was “still rambling about her desire to kill the president.”
Schofield told deputies that Parsons was “very intoxicated and combative” and requested that she be removed from the home and charged for taking the firearm.
Investigators also received messages that Parsons allegedly sent to her father.
“I was provided with screenshots of text messages from Johnetta to Johnny admitting that she had the gun and telling him to report it stolen and her intentions to kill the president,” the deputy wrote.
Mcnece told Blaze News that Parsons had frequently expressed unusual beliefs involving President Trump.
“She feels like Trump has a secret agenda against her, that he’s trying to do something against her, and that he’s stalking her,” Mcnece said.
Mcnece also described other claims Parsons allegedly made, including statements that President Trump had killed a member of their family and stood at the person’s “secret grave.”
“And that’s why he’s rich and we have no money,” Mcnece recalled Parsons saying.
Mcnece further stated that Parsons has “never been sober” and has declined to seek professional mental health care. Instead, she described alcohol and marijuana as “her medicine.”
Authorities noted that Parsons had previously disappeared in 2021 before later being located at a Dollar General store. The Ozark County Sheriff’s Office posted about the search for her on Facebook at that time.
Court records show that on Monday, a warrant was issued for Parsons’ arrest on a charge of stealing — firearm/explosive weapon/ammonium nitrate, a Class C felony. Bond has been set at $5,000 cash only.
The criminal complaint also describes Parsons as a “prior” and “persistent” offender and references two previous theft convictions, both of which occurred more than 15 years ago.
Blaze News reported that it contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri to determine whether federal charges would be filed but did not receive a response.
Because of the alleged threats involving the president, the Ozark County deputy also reported the case to the Secret Service field office in Chicago.
A representative from the office confirmed to Blaze News that the agency had received a report about an incident involving Parsons and said the investigation into the matter is “currently still in progress.”
Attempts to reach Schofield and Parsons for comment were unsuccessful.
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