An Ohio sheriff warned the public via social media that supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign may be accosting additional guests at some point.
In a post Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zukowski appeared to be urging residents on his campaign page to write down addresses of supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“If you ask me what would happen if the flip-flopping laughing hyena won,” Zukowski wrote in the post, “I would reply… write down the addresses of all the people who have her signs in their yards!”
“So… when the illegal immigrant 'locusts' she supports need a place to live… we will already have the addresses of the new families we helped them arrive!” his post continued.
Zukowski has served as Portage County sheriff since 2021 and has nearly 30 years of experience in law enforcement in Ohio, according to a biography posted on the Ohio State Police website.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Portage County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Zukowski for comment.
The city of Springfield, Ohio, has been in the national spotlight in recent weeks for the influx of tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants into the town of 60,000 people, but residents say the infrastructure is not ready to accommodate them all and that crime is also a growing problem.
“It feels like we're living in a dystopian nightmare,” Springfield resident Diana Daniels told “Fox & Friends” in a previous interview.
“You wish you could wake up in 2019, but suddenly it's 2024 and every day is the same. It's hard to wake up in the morning and hear about the struggles of residents you've known for years. This is a working-class town… paycheck to paycheck. Residents rely on social services like health care, Rocking Horse, [Community Health Center]”People who go to Social Security offices to apply for benefits are left waiting in line and not getting the services they need.”
Attention on Springfield was then revived when Ohio Senator J.D. Vance appeared on X to claim that the city's residents' “pets were being kidnapped and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country.”
The next day, at the second presidential debate, Trump spoke about immigration and border security, making the same claim that Haitian refugees in Springfield were “eating dogs. They're not eating the people that are coming in, they're eating cats.”
“They're eating the pets of people who live there. This is what's going on in our country, and it's a shame,” Trump responded.
In response to inquiries from Fox News Digital, local officials refuted the claims that have surfaced online.
“In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by immigrants in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific allegations that pets have been harmed, injured or abused by individuals within our immigrant community,” the city said.
