Newberry man arrested on child pornography charges after allegedly threatening a mass shooting
Staff report
NEWBERRY, Fla. – Simon David Flores, 29, was arrested yesterday on child pornography charges after law enforcement received a tip that he had sent messages about wanting to “do a mass shooting.”
A CyberTip was received on October 2 about a Meta Platforms account expressing the intent to conduct a mass shooting; in response to an emergency request for information about the account, Meta Platforms identified Flores as the person who created the Instagram account that sent the message.
According to information provided to law enforcement by Meta Platforms, Flores sent a message to another account on Instagram on September 18 that said, “I hate this sh**. I’ve been feeling so dark and depressed lately. I want to do a mass shooting.”
The same day, Flores reportedly exchanged sexually explicit messages on Instagram with another account, talking about wanting to find a “young” person to “be a little submissive pet.”
On September 25, Flores reportedly sent a message to a third account that said, “I SWEAR I NEVER WANTED TO KILL OR PULL A COLUMBINE MORE THSN [sic] NOW BIG TIME.”
On September 26, in a sexually explicit exchange with a fourth account, Flores reportedly sent a picture of his genitals, and when the other account said he was 15 years old and asked if that was a problem, Flores responded, “Not if it isn’t for you… F*** society and its rules… I’ll get more guns.” Flores reportedly asked the other account to send pictures when his parents left.
A federal search warrant was executed at Flores’s home on November 26, and Flores declined to answer questions without an attorney present. However, when he was told about the search warrant, he reportedly asked if this was because he “said something while [he] was pissed.” When shown the nude picture of his genitals and told that law enforcement believed he had sent the picture to other people, he reportedly said, “Yeah.”
There is no information in the arrest warrant about whether federal charges are pending.
Flores has been charged with using a computer to seduce a minor and sending a sexually explicit image to a minor. Flores has no local criminal history; Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $100,000.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.Â
The child molester is probably upset about the election.
They should be called what they actually are, child rapist. I don’t care about criminals feelings. They are RAPIST.
Hey actually a trumper
No he’s not.
Really? 2 county commission seats and he goes this nuts? It’s true that he lives in Newberry, so maybe.
Really? Where are commission seats mentioned in this article? Any wonder why outlying communities despise/distrust the County Commission?
You’re really a pathetic failed local politician who wishes he had continued his political career at the county level!
Definitely upset about a lot of things.
Sending pics of his junk, might get him a year in county, register as a sex offender. Threatening a mass shooting will get him some a year or two in prison. Since he had a clean record, most likely 18 months and year of probation.
Make mental institutions and prisons great again. Get these people off the streets permanently so THEY can not harm law abiding citizens. Tired of people protecting criminals.
Let’s start with getting panhandlers out of the medians
Easy. Just outlaw panhandling, and enforce the law. Oh wait; this is a Democrat run city. They won’t even arrest people camping on sidewalks, except of course at city hall. They will just tell them to move along, after 5 to 30 days. No arrests.
Meatball Ron d santis & repubs spent over 50 Million Tax Payers money to defeat the marijuana bill and keep it illegal . Big govment nazi Strikes Again . Just wait till autoparts go up 20% cuz tariffs , Oh wait , already happened – DUH MAGA doofus roger
Ahem, pardon me, but if auto parts tariffs have already gone up 20%, allow me to point out that Biden is president, not Trump so they went up on Biden’s watch…So I’d say you calling someone else a “doofus” is pretty rich. SMH
Probably some misguided uf student..
The joke fell on deaf ears apparently
No he’s not
“I hate this sh**. I’ve been feeling so dark and depressed lately….”
Is this guy one of our regular posters?
Hes a registered democrat
link?
No, you haven’t demoralized anyone here, Jazzmin, despite your best efforts. We’re all happy, and it’s even funnier to think about that silly Kayser Enneking and how worked up you get about her and the “dark money” LOL.
Hey, you voted for a felon who wants to pardon the traitors who attacked the capital, so we already get that you don’t believe in laws that apply to your cult.
Jesus must have been a felon. The Jews accused him of insurrection against their religion. Sound familiar?
Yes! And in fact Trump has compared himself to Jesus and said he was a better president than Washington and Lincoln, so I think you have something there. And like Jesus promising free wine, bread, and fish he couldn’t deliver, Trump still hasn’t built the wall Mexico was going to pay for……. or wait, I may have that Jesus part wrong! But he did invite the money changers to his crib and promise them tax cuts if they contributed to his cult……….no, that was somebody else. Dang!
OK, but I do know he said “Render unto Jesus and Ceasar cheated, so beat the crap out of his cops and take over…..no, that wasn’t him either.
Hey Trump is your cult, you explain it to us.
How stupid your response is! Trump is not my ideal candidate but he is way above the talking head the Dems offered!
Obviously, you don’t want a secured border, a ++ economy, reduced crime, better opportunities for all AMERICANS! You obviously discredit the votes of all the Americans (white, black, Asian, Hispanic)
I bet you supported Alachua County BOCC turds shutting down everything when Fauci’s Pandemic hit!
Wood chipper’s hungry. Time to feed him.
Hey Jazzmin we have democrats that live in Newberry too but there wont be many left if they keep doing this stuff. It always turns out to be Democrat or independents that sexualize and assault our kids as well as making these horrible threats of mass shootings. There is something in the Liberal Koolaid that destroys peoples minds and weakens their character. Perhaps its the depression that happens knowing you believed and trusted the Government, Media and the Science just to find out how easily you were fooled and manipulated after 4 jabs that simply further rot your brain and body. Hell that should depress every single one of you jackwads. But we know that regardless of the manipulation you recognize you allowed yourself to succumb to, you will not let go of that “trust” in Government, Media or Science simply because you are not capable of independent thought or anything other than collective action.
“Thursday brought the arrest of Joel Searby, a Newberry Education First board member and former Greenhouse Church lay preacher, on suspicion of soliciting sex from a minor.
Searby initiated conversation with the 15-year-old boy through Snapchat June 19 and sent a detailed description of sexual encounters Searby had with older adults when he was around the same age as the boy…..”
https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/06/newberry-board-member-solicitation
“…A total of seven studies with 21,618,297 COVID-19 patients were included in the meta-analysis. The odds ratio (OR) for mortality among unvaccinated patients compared to vaccinated patients was 2.46 (95% CI: 1.71-3.53), indicating that unvaccinated patients were 2.46 times more likely to die from COVID-19….”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10492612/
Anything else on your feeble mind?
Jazzmine, Searby was founder of “Forward Party” a left leaning party which believes government is where you handle social issues, and if you are still sharing items from NIH or anything from Federal Health agencies, it just proves you are still clueless and still believing everything your daddy gubmint tells you. At least I am not subject to any of the jab side effects that are causing multiple health issues such as turbo cancers and other immunocompromising diseases
Serious side effects from Covid vaccines are extremely rare and on balance a much smaller risk than Covid itself which without the vaccines will have a 2.5 ties greater chance to kill you than if you are vaccinated.. Over 1 million Americans died from Covid, and most were not vaccinated.
Dude looks like a walking “Black Box Warning” on a bottle of Prozac
Please castrate this man!