Police in Florida have arrested an exotic dancer for making disturbing posts on social media in which she said that she had a "vision" of committing a mass shooting in "a very public place." Brien Basarich used Tumblr to make the posts with the username "taking-lives" and warned that "2019 has a lot in store if my plans go accordingly.”
Authorities said that the 31-year-old planned to buy an AR-15 in the near future and that she said she admired serial killers and other mass shooters, such as Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a racist attack at a predominately black church in South Carolina in 2015.
Gary Gross, a Lakeland police spokesman, said that officials do not believe there was a “direct threat” to the public and that Basarich did not own any guns when she was taken into custody. Basarich is facing felony charges of written threats to kill, do bodily injury or conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism and was released on $5,000 bail.
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