Mother of teenage murder suspect accused of scrubbing son's bloody jeans, authorities say
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The mother of a Florida teenager accused of carrying out a brutal stabbing last month was charged with tampering with evidence on Saturday for allegedly washing a pair of bloody jeans her son had worn, according to an arrest warrant.
Crystal Smith, 35, was booked into the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office Detention in St. Augustine, Florida, on a $25,000 bond, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Her son, Aiden Fucci, was charged last week as an adult with first-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey, prosecutors have said. He allegedly stabbed her more than 100 times, according to authorities.Dr. Anthony Fauci said he sees a direct link between the rise in death threats made against him and his family and public figures connecting him to Covid-19 conspiracy theories, which he noted happened earlier Monday during a contentious House hearing about the government’s response to the pandemic.
The public lashing Dr. Anthony Fauci faced on Capitol Hill Monday was illustrative of his enduring unpopularity with the GOP’s conservative base. Yet even as Republicans seek to capitalize on that dislike of the infectious disease expert, former President Donald Trump’s past elevation of Fauci is a potential vulnerability as he fights off an insurgent independent campaign from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee raised a combined $141 million in May for former President Donald Trump’s reelection effort, the campaign said Monday – a dramatic boost in fundraising over the previous month’s haul as the Trump team works to erase President Joe Biden’s longstanding financial advantage.