As the Los Angeles mayoral election heats up, Democrat Mayor Karen Bass unveiled a new proposal to help the city’s homeless population — and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is shocked by her solution.

“It’s a feat that California still exists. Like, it’s a feat that it has not imploded and just crumbled into the ocean. You could not find less capable people there to run it,” Gonzales says.

“This is what she wants to spend taxpayer money on in the state of California. She wants to give free dental work to meth heads. Yep,” she says, reading the headline: “Karen Bass prioritizes plan to get free dental care for homeless meth heads.”

Gonzales points out that while it sounds like a satirical headline, it’s not.

“I could pretend like that was an Onion headline. It sure looks like one, but it’s not,” she says, playing a clip of Bass explaining her reasoning.

“How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can’t succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided to people,” Bass explained.

“I don’t think that’s the reason … they’re not succeeding,” Gonzales says.

“This may be a controversial take. Maybe, it might be the meth that they voluntarily keep taking that is the actual problem that’s keeping them from succeeding. I don’t know,” she continues.

“Now, it’s really no wonder when you look at this, when you look at how insane these Democrats are, that Spencer Pratt is starting to close the gap in the polls,” she adds.

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Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan appears to be a washed-up politician without a party after Democrat voters showed on Tuesday they want nothing to do with him.

Duncan spent nearly a decade in state elected office as a Republican. He was a representative in the Georgia House from 2013 until 2017 and lieutenant governor from 2019 until 2023, so he was an executive in charge during the controversial 2020 presidential election.

‘I remain 100% committed to … combating … the Donald Trump crisis.’

A month after the 2020 race in Georgia was called for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, Duncan claimed that persistent GOP challenges to the results would damage the Republican Party. “I’m very, very worried that this affects our brand of conservatism,” he said at the time.

By 2024, Duncan had morphed into an ardently anti-Trump activist. Not only did he endorse Biden for re-election as well as Biden’s replacement, Kamala Harris, but Duncan even made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention, begging voters to “dump Trump.”

In January 2025, the Georgia Republican Party formally expelled Duncan, prohibiting him from entering party events or property, banning him from running for state office again as a Republican, and expunging its endorsements of his previous campaigns.

By mid-September, Duncan had fully transitioned into a donkey, declaring his candidacy to run for Georgia governor as Democrat in 2026.

RELATED: Georgia GOP banishes former lieutenant governor after Harris endorsement

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It didn’t go well.

In the Democratic primary on Tuesday, Duncan finished a humiliating fourth, garnering just 7% of the total vote. The winner, Keisha Lance Bottoms, served only one tumultuous term as mayor of Atlanta that included the violent 2020 riots.

Even in his concession tweet, Duncan still continued to rail against Trump: “While this result wasn’t what we hoped for, I remain 100% committed to standing up for our state. That means combating the affordability crisis, the health care crisis and the Donald Trump crisis.”

Trump, meanwhile, claimed victory after victory Tuesday night as his preferred candidates in Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Oregon either won their races outright or at least advanced to an upcoming runoff.

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President Donald Trump mocked climate alarmists on Saturday after another one of their doomsday scenarios was shown to be utter nonsense.

The admission by scientists that prompted Trump’s derision is but the latest in a long series of embarrassments for those activists keen to use climate prophecies as an excuse to socially engineer human beings and regulate society.

Narrative collapse

The imagined threat of anthropogenic climate change has driven numerous public officials, scientists, and impressionable people bonkers in recent decades.

While Western politicians sacrificed energy security and hobbled industry in hopes of slowing natural phenomena and defeating the arch-villain carbon dioxide (plant food), similarly minded scientists proposed blotting out the sun; “culling” the emission-generating human population with a deadly pandemic; reducing or eliminating meat consumption; putting the population on a diet of bugs, weeds, and micro-algae; and having fewer children.

‘Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs.’

This madness has been driven and exacerbated in large part by bogus claims and laughably wrong predictions. In most cases, all that’s required to debunk such claims is time and a functional set of eyes.

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, for instance, said at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009 that new research indicated there was “a 75% chance that the entire North Polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

Just as Gore was wrong about a 20-foot rise in the global sea level “in the near future,” polar bear drownings, and the snows of Kilimanjaro, he was wrong about the future of Arctic ice.

A paper published late last year in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters concluded that over the past 20 years, “Arctic sea ice loss has slowed considerably, with no statistically significant decline in September sea ice area since 2005.”

RELATED: Bizarre academic paper about releasing ticks resurfaces amid surging bites

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If, perhaps, Gore confused the Arctic with the Antarctic, he’d still be wrong. Antarctica has enjoyed a massive gain in ice mass — at a rate of 119 billion tons per year from 2021 to 2023.

Polar ice is hardly the only planetary feature alarmists mistakenly suggested would fall victim to climate change.

Alarmists suggested in a 2017 study and elsewhere that climate change posed an existential threat to the world’s coral reefs and that “immediate global action to curb future warming is essential to secure a future for coral reefs.”

While dutifully claiming that “climate change mitigation” was still essential, researchers admitted in 2024 that “widespread and diverse coral species all exhibit the potential to adapt to the changing climate.”

Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Bill Gates is one of the few alarmists to admit to having pie on his face.

Gates alleged in a 2021 work of climate alarmist agitprop that if humanity failed to eliminate so-called greenhouse gas emissions, “climate change will keep getting worse, and the impact on humans will in all likelihood be catastrophic.”

After years of fear-mongering, he apparently felt compelled to admit that he too had gotten it wrong.

Gates noted in October that the “doomsday view of climate change” that says “cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization” and that “nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature” is wrong.

UN wrong, again

The United Nations, like Gates a longtime proponent of climate hysteria, was recently confronted with evidence that it too is wrong.

The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project, an outfit led by a committee of top climate scientists, admitted in a study published last month in the journal Geoscientific Model Development that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case future emissions scenarios are “implausible based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends.”

Taking into account the world’s future population, emission trends, energy sources, climate policies, and other factors, researchers have cooked up various climate scenarios for use in scientific modeling and activist propaganda.

In the early 2010s, such researchers developed a set of four scenarios for climate modeling, called “representative concentration pathways” or RCPs. The most extreme of these was RCP8.5.

The number 8.5 here signals the level of radiative forcing — the extra heat supposedly trapped in the Earth’s system, expressed in watts per square meter — projected by the year 2100.

The IPCC projected in 2013 that under this scenario, there would be a temperature rise of 4.3°C by 2081-2100 when compared to the pre-industrial period.

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RCP8.5’s successor, “shared socioeconomic pathway”-8.5, projected warming of 4.4°C by 2081-2100, with a “very likely” range of 3.3°C to 5.7°C, the Carbon Brief reported.

It was all nonsense.

Roger Pielke Jr., a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted, “The four scenarios were never apples-to-apples. They were four different fruits from four different trees. Yet, over more than a decade and in tens of thousands of papers, RCP8.5 was treated as where the world was headed and the other three scenarios — but especially RCP4.5 and 2.6 — as a world with climate policy interventions.”

Despite numerous scientists stressing that the alarmist scenario was not only unlikely but misleading, the RCP8.5 scenario “came to dominate the literature to a degree that is impossible to overstate,” Pielke said.

“RCP8.5 accounted for more than half of all RCP references in the 2018 U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment, nearly 60 percent in the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere, and about a third of all RCP references in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report,” Pielke wrote. “By early 2020, researchers were publishing studies invoking RCP8.5 at a rate of roughly 20 per day. So far in 2026, studies using RCP8.5 (or its even more extreme successor, SSP5-8.5) are being published at a rate of ~30 new studies per day.”

Now, the scientific community must contend with the acknowledgment that this scenario is bogus.

Science journalist Maarten Keulemans noted in a post that has been translated from its original Dutch, “The IPCC acknowledges what has been circulating for a long time: The highest disaster scenario, 8.5, no longer aligns with reality. WHAT CONSEQUENCES this has. ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU READ ABOUT CLIMATE FUTURE IS WRONG.”

Keuleman suggested further that this admission effectively torpedoes claims that global surface temperature will increase 4-5°C by 2100; summers will all hit 104°F and agriculture in Western Europe will be unsustainable by century’s end; tuna, swordfish, and other marine creatures will go extinct; there will be millions of climate refugees every year; and that there will be no more Winter Olympics by 2040.

Trump similarly weighed in, stating, “GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”

“For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs,” the president continued. “Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!”

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Democrats committed earlier this year to ideologically flipping the Georgia Supreme Court, where eight of the current nine justices are appointees of Republican governors, but they hit a major snag: Georgia voters.

Democrats’ plan was to oust a pair of incumbents in the May 19 election, replace them with a pair of pro-abortion radicals, then, in 2028, similarly knock out the trio of GOP-appointed justices who will be facing re-election.

‘The people of Georgia have made clear that they want to keep politics out of Georgia’s courtrooms.’

Charlie Bailey, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, said in April that his party was investing a historic sum in the campaigns of former Democrat state Sen. Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin, noting that “it’s the most money that the Georgia Democratic Party has spent in judicial races in 20 years.”

In addition to outside money, the liberal challengers enjoyed the support of outsiders, including pro-abortion groups and former President Barack Obama.

Obama, who endorsed both Jordan and Rankin, issued a reminder on Tuesday afternoon that “the decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives” and implored voters to “get this one right.”

RELATED: Trump accuses Democrat governor of MASSIVE election fraud; officials say it was a printer error

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Twice-failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris also weighed in from afar, telling Georgia voters to back Rankin and Jordan, whom she characterized as “extraordinary leaders.”

Just as Democrats wasted millions of dollars on the unlawful, Obama-backed redistricting power-grab in Virginia — which the Old Dominion’s Supreme Court torpedoed on May 8 — their court-flipping scheme in Georgia similarly proved to be a humiliating failure.

Georgia Supreme Court Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel, the Republican-appointed incumbents whom Gov. Brian Kemp threw his support behind, handily crushed their Democrat-backed challengers.

With over 95% of the expected votes in, Warren secured over 350,000 votes more than Jordan, beating the former Democrat lawmaker 59.3% to 40.7%.

Warren said in a statement following her decisive victory, “Today, the people of Georgia have made clear that they want to keep politics out of Georgia’s courtrooms. The Supreme Court of Georgia is a nonpartisan court by constitutional design, and I am thankful that it will stay that way.”

Bethel, a former Republican state senator, had a closer race but still came out on top, taking 51.1% of the total vote.

Whereas his challenger, Rankin, demonstrated on the campaign trail that she was sensitive and receptive to the ideological fads of the day, Bethel made clear on the campaign trail that he remains “committed to following Georgia law without respect to my personal preferences or the popular sentiment of the day.”

According to AdImpact, over $4 million was blown on ads across the two races.

Kemp congratulated the victors and stressed that “the Democrats are not going to take their foot off the gas heading into November, and neither will we. Keep Choppin’!”

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Today’s youth have never known life without a phone or internet access, and it shows.

Countless students have told me they are unable to be authentic with their parents or friends.

I rarely see a group of young people without phones in their hands. Texts, DMs, and Snaps are the norm for communicating, often creating shallow relationships and a false sense of community. This shallowness makes young people vulnerable to exploitation, which is why we must sound the alarm on the danger of using AI for friendship.

Nothing can, or ever will, replace the authentic, real love and hope found in other human beings.

As someone who regularly speaks on college campuses and has three young kids, I have seen firsthand the younger generation’s deficiency in forming personal connections. The lack of face-to-face interaction has made it difficult to engage with people outside the digital world — from avoiding job applications or being reluctant to introduce themselves to strangers to a general rise in anxiety in everyday life.

It’s no wonder we have a loneliness epidemic plaguing today’s youth. Between 17% and 21% of people ages 13 to 29 reported feeling lonely, according to a World Health Organization study, with the highest rates among teens.

In the midst of this epidemic, a growing number of young people are turning to AI for friendship. One study found that 25% of people under 30 are turning to AI for companionship. This number shows just how integrated AI has become in the lives of younger generations. We are watching youth learn to connect to machines at the age when they should be learning to connect with people, and the cost is becoming impossible to ignore.

The connection AI provides is not genuine. It is a synthetic, fleeting companion that doesn’t produce understanding, empathy, or relatability. And the more that teens use AI, the more trouble they have identifying what an authentic connection looks like.

Younger people, like everyone else, feel the need for an outlet. Many students have told me they struggle to be open and honest with their parents or friends. They think they will be judged, lectured, or misunderstood. They are afraid to expose their insecurities for fear of rejection or judgment, so they turn to the false sense of connection in AI. But it’s an illusion. The real world is so much richer and fulfilling than the temporary relief technology provides.

For many who seek comfort in AI, the end result is a feeling of further isolation and a realization that they have failed to build genuine relationships. They are left feeling even emptier than before.

We need to counteract this false narrative and teach our kids how to build lasting relationships with other people, not machines. Our children need to understand that AI cannot replicate or replace human connections.

RELATED: Meet the ‘femosphere’: Angry young women who love to hate men

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Life can get tough. Sometimes we face mountains we don’t think we can climb or situations we can’t take on alone. But there are communities out there that can help those who are struggling.

I am no stranger to loneliness myself. I felt depressed and alone enough that I almost ended my own life when I was 21. Suicide is not the solution to depression or loneliness — and neither is AI. What helped pull me out was not a program or chatbot, but something far greater and far more real: my faith in Christ and the real community of people in my life.

Jesus himself spent his time surrounded by his disciples and people seeking belonging. Human beings are hardwired to be part of a community. Parents need to show their children that there are churches, neighbors, peers, and many other people in the world whom they can lean on.

AI is not our friend. Nothing can, or ever will, replace the authentic, real love and hope found in other human beings. And that is a connection that does not require a Wi-Fi signal or password.

It only requires showing up.

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The president likes him “a lot,” but Georgia voters still have to prove they agree.

Sitting U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) took home the most votes in the Georgia GOP primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, but it was not enough to secure an outright nomination.

’28 more days of putting the hammer down!’

Collins was first in the primary, but since he did not garner 50% of the vote, he will have to go head-to-head against runner-up Derek Dooley in a runoff election on June 16. Collins finished with nearly 41% of the vote, while Dooley had about 30%, according to CBS News.

“Thank you, Georgia. Love y’all. 28 more days of putting the hammer down!” Collins wrote on X after securing the most votes in the primary.

Collins was considered the favorite as a MAGA-style Republican and led polls by an average of 11.5 points between April and May.

The 58-year-old also received an unofficial endorsement from President Donald Trump in February, but it is unclear how much that endorsement helped him.

A video posted February 19 showed Trump telling supporters, “He’s a friend of mine. He’s a good guy.”

“I like him a lot,” Trump added.

RELATED: Early red flag for GOP? Democrats rack up massive Q1 fundraising hauls

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The video garnered nearly 1 million views on X, but subsequent polls showed Collins’ lead shrank from about +25 in mid-February to just +14 by the end of the month.

Still, Collins was considered to be Trump-aligned, having similar views on immigration and spearheading the Laken Riley Act. As well, Collins voted against aid to Ukraine in October 2023, but voted in favor of Israeli aid the same month.

Dooley, a former football coach for the Tennessee Volunteers, was consistently second or third in polling and was endorsed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R).

Dooley put out a statement late on Tuesday thanking his voters for their support.

“This campaign has been about putting the people of Georgia first and sending a new type of leader up to D.C. who’s in it for the right reasons, and that’s to serve,” Dooley wrote on X.

“Let’s get to work and win this runoff!” he added alongside a photo that featured Gov. Kemp.

RELATED: Georgia man allegedly threatened to kill Pam Bondi and stab Kristi Noem’s eyes out ‘with a dull knife’

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Third place went to Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-Ga.), a former pharmacist and mayor who received approximately 25% of the vote.

Other candidates included businessman and real estate developer John Coyne, as well as Jonathan McColumn, a retired U.S. Army Reserve brigadier general and pastor. Both got less than 5% of the vote.

The winner of Collins vs. Dooley will face off against Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff in November. Ossoff went unopposed in the Democrat primary and has been in office since 2021.

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Every time you drive through an intersection, pass a police cruiser, or pull into a parking lot, there’s a growing chance your vehicle is being logged into a database you never agreed to join.

Across the country, cities are rapidly expanding automated license plate reader systems — networks of cameras that record where vehicles travel, when they appear, and increasingly, what makes them unique.

The San Jose lawsuit argues that vehicle tracking data can already be shared across jurisdictions and searched broadly.

Whose ‘safety’?

Much of the backlash now centers on Flock Safety, the largest automated license plate reader company in the United States. The company says its cameras operate in more than 5,000 communities, connect to over 4,800 law enforcement agencies across 49 states, and process more than 20 billion license plate reads every month.

Supporters call it a powerful crime-fighting tool.

Critics see the foundation of a nationwide vehicle surveillance network.

And now the legal fight is escalating.

In San Jose, California, residents and the Institute for Justice have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the city’s massive automated license plate reader program, arguing that constant vehicle tracking without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.

San Jose deployed nearly 500 cameras across the city, creating one of the largest systems in the country. These cameras do far more than capture license plates. They can log vehicle color, make, model, bumper stickers, roof racks, and other identifying details. Over time, that creates a searchable history of a driver’s movements and routines.

According to the lawsuit, thousands of government employees may be able to access portions of that data.

Supporters argue these systems help solve crimes and recover stolen vehicles. Critics argue the scale changes the equation entirely. A few cameras targeting specific criminal investigations is one thing. Constant mass collection of vehicle data is something very different.

That distinction is beginning to resonate with the public.

Bipartisan backlash

In Pine Plains, New York, residents erupted after discovering plans to install Flock Safety cameras without public approval. Town meetings quickly turned contentious after reports surfaced that officials had tried to minimize public attention around the rollout. Residents demanded answers, and eventually the proposal collapsed under public pressure.

What’s striking is that Pine Plains is a town of only about 2,200 people.

This is no longer just a debate happening in large cities with major crime problems. Smaller communities are beginning to push back too.

And the backlash is becoming bipartisan.

Conservative-led states including Montana, Idaho, and Arkansas have recently enacted laws restricting how governments can access or retain certain surveillance data. At the same time, Democratic-led cities in states including Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington have terminated or reconsidered contracts with Flock Safety over privacy concerns.

No context

The concern goes beyond ordinary policing.

Civil liberties groups like the ACLU argue that once large-scale tracking systems exist, the data can easily be shared across agencies and repurposed far beyond the original justification. Reports have already surfaced showing local agencies conducting searches connected to federal immigration enforcement requests.

That’s where the conversation changes.

Law enforcement requires judgment. Context matters. Algorithms don’t understand context — they simply record and flag behavior mechanically.

And modern automatic license plate reader systems do far more than issue tickets.

Over time, they can reveal where people work, worship, shop, protest, or whom they regularly associate with. Once collected, that information rarely stays confined to one agency or one purpose.

RELATED: Flock Safety: Is any driver safe from its AI-powered surveillance?

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Court fight

The San Jose lawsuit argues that vehicle tracking data can already be shared across jurisdictions and searched broadly. Privacy advocates worry that such systems could eventually be used for purposes far beyond local policing.

That’s why the court fight matters.

If courts side with cities, expect rapid expansion: more cameras, more interconnected databases, and broader information sharing between agencies.

If courts push back, it could force lawmakers and cities to rethink how these systems operate — or whether they should operate at this scale at all.

Most Americans support law enforcement and want safer communities. But they also expect constitutional protections to keep pace with technology.

Right now, many residents feel those protections are lagging badly behind.

Cities are deploying powerful surveillance systems first and answering questions later. Oversight remains inconsistent, and public transparency is often limited.

That’s fueling distrust even among people who might otherwise support the technology.

I brake for mistakes

There’s also a practical problem policymakers rarely acknowledge: These systems are not infallible.

Databases can be hacked. Searches can be misused. False matches happen. And when systems scale rapidly, those risks scale with them.

Several lawsuits around the country already involve drivers who were stopped or investigated after incorrect plate matches or flawed data.

In Europe, camera-based enforcement has already expanded well beyond speeding tickets. Cities in the United Kingdom now use extensive automated camera systems tied to congestion charges, low-emissions zones, and traffic enforcement programs. Critics warn that once these systems become normalized, their use tends to expand.

Tracking the trackers

Expect more legal challenges ahead.

Expect more public fights at city council meetings.

And expect this issue to move increasingly into national politics as more Americans realize how much vehicle tracking technology has quietly expanded.

At its core, this debate is no longer just about traffic cameras or stolen cars.

It’s about whether Americans are comfortable living in a country where their movements on public roads can be continuously logged, stored, and searched without a warrant.

More and more people are starting to decide they aren’t.

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A 25-year-old man has been arrested after police said they found human remains buried in his backyard while they were searching for his missing father.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office sought a search warrant for Andres Bahamon’s home in Dunnellon after he allegedly sent a photo of his dead father to his mother in Germany.

Investigators claimed to have found what they believe to be blood on the door frame, a bullet casing on the floor, and bullets inside the home.

The family of the man’s father, 43-year-old Andres Bahamon-Prada, said he had been missing since May 7, according to an arrest warrant, but police began searching for him on Saturday.

When they searched the home Monday, they found an area of freshly disturbed dirt and detected the odor of decomposition. Buried in the dirt was a large rolled-up carpet with human remains.

Investigators claimed to have found what they believe to be blood on the door frame, a bullet casing on the floor, and bullets inside the home, according to the arrest warrant.

Bahamon was identified as a person of interest and arrested on Monday. He was charged with tampering with evidence and held at the Marion County Jail with no bond.

The suspect’s mother had forwarded the alleged photo of the dead man to Bahamon-Prada’s mother and told her to call law enforcement. Bahamon also allegedly threatened to kill his mother when he found out the photo had been given to the police.

The victim’s mother also told police that Bahamon told her the victim was “evil” and a “junkie.”

The suspect was located at the RaceTrac gas station in Ocala.

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Police said they are searching for the father’s missing car, a silver 2007 Infinity M35, and believe the car may have important evidence in the case.

Police have not yet identified to the remains.

Anyone with information related to the missing car is urged to contact the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

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