Convict admits framing illegal migrant for Trump assassination plot in dramatic twist
Ramon Morales-Reyes, 54, was rounded up by ICE last week after Milwaukee cops accused him of writing a chilling letter to a border agent warning he was 'tired of this president messing with us Mexicans'.
'We have done more for this country than you white people—you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him,' the letter read.
The letter, written in neat handwriting in English, included a promise to 'self-deport myself back to Mexico ', but only after carrying out a plot on the president's life.
'Not before I use my 30 yard 6 to shoot your precious president in his head - I will see him at one of his big rallies,' the letter concluded.
Morales-Reyes' arrest was lauded by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at the time, but according to a filing in Milwaukee County on Monday, the letter was fake.
Demetric Scott, 52, was arrested after allegedly trying to frame Morales-Reyes and get him deported so he would not be able to testify against him in a violent armed robbery case.
He is set to stand trial next month, with Morales-Reyes reportedly expected to be a key witness.
The letter included chilling threats to 'shoot your precious president in his head - I will see him at one of his big rallies' in neat handwriting, which investigators said they believe was fake as the man Scott allegedly tried to frame does not speak, read or write English
According to filings reported by WISN, Morales-Reyes identified Scott to authorities as the suspect who kicked him off a bicycle in September 2023, before he slashed him with something sharp and took off with the bike.
Prosecutors say that Scott intended to use the hostile rhetoric surrounding illegal immigrants from the White House to manipulate authorities into deporting Morales-Reyes before he could testify.
Although the letter that led to Morales-Reyes's arrest was sent to an ICE agent, Scott also allegedly sent similar letters about assassinating Trump to Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul.
In the letter to Kaul, he reportedly elaborated on the plot on Trump's life, including saying his 'family is with the Mexican Mafia.'
'How would you like it if we use a bomb to blow up the white house while your precious president is still inside,' the letter to Kaul said, per the filing.
'Somone need to blow this entire country up like 911 in New York. Can't you white understand we are tired of running its time to kill ICE Agents or be killed.'
The letters were all listed with Morales-Reyes as the sender with his return address.
Investigators reportedly became suspicious of Morales-Reyes' true involvement soon after his arrest, and found that he was not fluent in English.
Despite the letters being written in neat handwriting in English, they found he could not read or write in English.
Morales-Reyes pleaded his innocence, and told investigators that 'the only person who would want to get him in trouble was the person who had robbed him,' the filing said.
Scott was already behind bars at the time, and when cops searched his cell on May 30 they found a blue pen matching the turquoise color of the letters to officials.
A note saying Scott needed the Attorney General's Office address as well as another envelope were also found under his bed, which was stamped with the address and phone number to the Milwaukee Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, the filing said.
According to officials, Scott admitted that he wrote the letters soon after, saying that he believes the letters were the simplest way to get 'this a**hole' off his back.
Scott allegedly admitted to having his mother help mail the letters for him, but said she and other accomplices were unaware of the content of the letters.
He is now facing further charges of witness intimidation and identity theft, and is due back in court on June 3.
It is unclear what will happen to Morales-Reyes, with the Mexican national found to be in the US illegally and he already owned a lengthy rap sheet.
According to ICE, his rap sheet includes arrests for felony hit-and-run, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct.
Officials said after his arrest that he was being held in Dodge County Jail in Juneau, Wisconsin, and was set to be deported.
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