The Florida woman who was arrested for allegedly threatening a health insurer using the same words found on the bullets used to kill the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is a veteran of the healthcare industry.
Briana Boston, 42, who was charged with making a threatening call to BlueCross BlueShield about a rejected medical claim, works as nuclear medicine technologist and has spent a decade in the field, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She currently holds the position at Bond Clinic, P.A., in Winter Haven, Florida, not far from her home in Lakeland, where police officers responded Tuesday after getting a tip from the FBI.
Toward the end of her call with BlueCross BlueShield, she told the operator: ‘Delay, deny, depose. You people are next,’ her arrest report stated.
The words were found on bullet casings at the scene of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, for which Luigi Mangione, 26, is the prime suspect.
Boston admitted to police that she used the words ‘because it’s what’s in the news right now,’ the arrest report said.
She told investigators that ‘healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil.’
She stated that was not a gun owner or ‘a danger to anyone’, the report added.
Briana Boston, 42, was arrested for allegedly threatening a health insurer using the same words found on the bullets used to kill the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is a veteran of the healthcare industry
Boston, 42, who was charged with making a threatening call to BlueCross BlueShield about a rejected medical claim, works as nuclear medicine technologist and has spent a decade in the field, according to her LinkedIn profile. Pictured: Briana Boston learns the terms of her bond
The mother-of-three was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. Her bond was set at $100,000 with a judge reportedly remarking that it was, ‘appropriate considering the status of our country at this point’
She was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.
Her bond was set at $100,000 with a judge reportedly remarking that it was, ‘appropriate considering the status of our country at this point.’
A fundraiser was launched seeking to raise $100,000 to pay Boston’s bond.
The words were found on bullet casings at the scene of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, for which Luigi Mangione (pictured), 26, is the prime suspect
‘[I]n no way did Briana threaten anyone,’ the fundraising page states. ‘She is a mom of 3 and has a clean record. She has no weapons in her possession. Her jailing is a violation of the 1st amendment and we want to help her find freedom.’
DailyMail.com contacted Bond Clinic, P.A., which would neither confirm nor deny her employment with the company.
Her lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
Boston is a registered radiologic technologist and a certified nuclear medicine technologist, according to her LinkedIn profile, which also lists the American Heart Association under her licenses and certifications.
She has earned numerous endorsements from fellow LinkedIn users for her skills in the healthcare space.
Nuclear medicine is a specialty ‘that uses radioactive tracers (radiopharmaceuticals) to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease,’ according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.