Trump assassination attempt: Ex-opera singer, fake Rothschild and other security breaches

Law enforcement officials are looking at security for Donald Trump in light of an assassination attempt at Trump International Golf Club near West Palm Beach on Sunday, Sept. 15. Trump was not injured.

Secret Service agents were protecting the former president as he played the course, said Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw at a news conference that day. As the agents scoped the hole ahead of where Trump was playing, they saw a man through the high shrubbery and shot at him. They ended up finding an STS rifle where the man had been before he fled.

The suspect, Ryan Routh, was stopped and arrested on Interstate 95 in Martin County.

Trump was wounded on July 13 in the first assassination attempt against him at a rally in Pennsylvania after a gunman opened fire. The gunman killed one person, wounded others and hit the former president in his right ear. Law-enforcement authorities killed the gunman.

It wasn't the first security breach near Trump in Palm Beach County and elsewhere in South Florida. There have been several, mostly at Mar-a-Lago, his home in Palm Beach. Here are some of them:

Boca woman threatens bombing at Trump International Golf Club in June

Weeks before the attempted assassination of Trump at Trump International, a Boca Raton woman admitted in court that she had left a voicemail at the course in June threatening to detonate a bomb there.

"There is a bomb I left on the site," the 60-year-old said in the voicemail. "Hopefully you will get everyone evacuated, except for Trump."

Martha Jane Schoenfeld, a part-time manicurist and the mother of two adult children, pleaded guilty on Sept. 4. Investigators had also learned of another threatening voicemail tied to Schoenfeld's phone and left at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. She was originally charged with two misdemeanors but prosecutors dropped that charge.

Though Schoenfeld faces 10 years in prison, prosecutors are recommending probation. She's scheduled to be sentenced in December.

Road on Palm Beach closed after Pa. assassination attempt

South Ocean Boulevard near Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, had just reopened a little more than three weeks ago after the Secret Service shut it down days after the first assassination attempt. The Coast Guard also enacted temporary security zones around the estate, and changes to schedules for the bridge on Southern Boulevard were made.

The Town of Palm Beach pleaded with federal officials to reopen the road after the officials declared that it would be closed at least through the Nov. 5 election.

They reached an agreement with the town to keep the road open when Trump wasn't there. The road had just opened to traffic for the first time on Aug. 24.

Now the road is shut down again after the Sept. 15 assassination attempt.

Chinese citizen tries several times to get into Mar-a-Lago

A Chinese citizen on Aug. 3 was arrested at Mar-a-Lago after he had repeatedly tried to get into Trump's home.

Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, claimed he had documents tying China to the July assassination attempt. He was charged with misdemeanor trespassing, and his case is ongoing.

Trump was not at Mar-a-Lago at the time.

Ex-opera singer eludes PBSO, Secret Service on chase through Mar-a-Lago barricades

A former opera singer , who had long dealt with mental health issues, drove through security checkpoints set up outside Mar-a-Lago in January 2020. Trump was not on the property at the time, but was expected to arrive later that day.

Hannah Roemhild of Connecticut pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in January 2022 to state charges of assaulting a law-enforcement officer, fleeing police and resisting arrest. She also was charged in federal court. A Palm Beach County circuit court judge accepted the plea. She had also been found "mentally defective" months earlier by a federal judge. Both ordered her into mental health treatment.

Roemhild had not been on her medications when the incident began, her lawyers said. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper responded to a call on Jan. 31 from The Breakers of a woman acting irrationally and dancing on top of a Jeep SUV.

She ignored the trooper and speeded down South County Road toward Mar-a-Lago. The trooper gave chase. When she got to Mar-a-Lago, Roemhild drove around barricades at the north end of the property, ignoring orders to stop from Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies.

As she continued south, she blew through more barricades and a Secret Service checkpoint before stopping in front of an unmarked sheriff's office vehicle. As she tried to get around the car, two deputies and a Secret Service agent shot and hit her Jeep multiple times.

Roemhild then crossed the Southern Boulevard bridge and picked up her mom at the airport. She was tracked to a local hotel where she was arrested. No one was injured.

Fake Rothschild heiress pops into Mar-a-Lago several times, plays golf with Trump

A Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild family and at the time chased by the Russian mob got into Mar-a-Lago in May 2021, schmoozed with Donald Trump and even played golf with the former president and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, at Trump International Golf Club, stories by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project revealed.

The West Palm Beach-area course is where Secret Service agents on Sept. 15 spotted a gun in the hedges at the hole ahead of where Trump was playing. One agent fired and the would-be assailant, Ryan Routh, fled.

Anna de Rothschild had gained access to Trump's home four times in 2021 without a background check, according to reporting by the news organizations.

Private club members said she bragged about her famous European banking family. When she visited, she wore designer clothes, drove a $170,000 Mercedes Benz SUV and mingled with key Trump supporters, the Gazette reported.

In truth she was Inna Yashchyshyn, the daughter of an Illinois truck driver. She was being pursued by a Russian organized-crime ring known for money laundering, the news organizations reported. Texts from a man known as Artak were becoming angrier when she visited Trump in May 2021.

He told the news organizations that she owed them $150,000.

In an interview with the Post-Gazette, Yashchyshyn said she didn't know Anna de Rothschild and that fake ID cards in that name were manufactured by a former business partner who was mad at her.

Ex-owner of spa involved in case that ensnared Robert Kraft and Chinese Communist Party member parties at Mar-a-Lago for Super Bowl

Li "Cindy" Yang, the woman who once owned the Jupiter massage parlor involved in a case in which New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged, attended a party honoring then- President Donald Trump in February 2019 at Mar-a-Lago.

Toni Holt Kramer, organizer of the party, said Yang purchased two tickets and brought a friend. The tickets gave her access to an exclusive VIP reception in the property's white-and-gold ballroom, where Trump's son, Eric, and then-U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross visited with guests.

Yang had held leadership roles in groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party. She had also mingled with top Communist officials at an exclusive conference in China that showcased the nation's leader.

Yang used to own the Jupiter Orchids of Asia Day Spa, which was the subject of a raid by police. Dozens of men, including Kraft, were charged with engaging in sex acts with the spa's employees. Kraft, a part-time Palm Beach resident, has been a close friend of Trump.

Charges were eventually dropped against Kraft.

Yang owned a chain of spas in Palm Beach and Broward counties. She also claimed she was tight with the Republican leadership and Trump. She raised money for the party and attended Trump's inauguration.

Chinese woman lies to get into Mar-a-Lago lobby

While Trump was still president, a Chinese woman got past a Secret Service checkpoint in Mar-a-Lago and made her way to the lobby while Trump and his family were in town.

Yujing Zhang on March 30, 2019, told the agents that she was a member of the private club and was there to use the pool.

When agents later searched her purse, they found four cellphones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive that contained software that would allow her to access computers.

Zhang told them she didn't want the devices to be stolen from her hotel room at The Colony Hotel. When they searched her room, they found $8,000 in cash, credit cards, another cellphone, nine USB drives, five SIM cards and a device that can be used to detect hidden cameras.

Later she said Trump had invited her.

A jury disagreed. They found she lied to Secret Service agents. The judge sentenced her to eight months in prison. After she served her sentence, she was ordered to be deported back to Shanghai.

Chinese national who took photos of estate is acquitted

In December 2019, another Chinese national made her way onto Trump's estate and took photos.

Jing Lu was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and resisting arrest when Palm Beach police later stopped her on Worth Avenue.

Hours after she was on the estate, Mar-a-Lago was set to host the Turning Point USA's annual Winter Gala, a fundraiser for the nonprofit conservative student organization. Attendees were to include Donald Trump Jr., U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Jerry Falwell Jr. Then-President Donald Trump arrived at the home two days later to stay in Palm Beach for the holidays.

Lu had tesified through a Mandarin interpreter at her trial that she had come to the area on vacation and hired a tour guide who took her to several places, including Mar-a-Lago.

She said she trotted through Mar-a-Lago's "very pretty" front gate and started taking pictures. Security guards shooed her off twice, but the language barrier prevented them from communicating with her.

Her lawyers argued it was an "honest mistake," and jurors agreed, finding her not guilty on the trespassing charge but guilty of resisting arrest. The tour guide had dropped her there after her foray into Trump's estate. After an appeal, the judge acquitted her of the second charge.

College freshman gets through by way of beach tunnel

A freshman at the University of Wisconsin, who was visiting his grandparents during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2018, walked to the Mar-a-Lago Club's pool through the beach tunnel and wandered for 20 minutes before being stopped by federal agents.

Mark Lindblom admitted to a federal magistrate that he was trying to see how far he could get.

The 18-year-old was visiting his grandparents at the neighboring Palm Beach Bath & Tennis Club. That club and Mar-a-Lago share a beach and Lindstrom simply walked over the sand to a tunnel that goes under State Road A1A and gives Mar-a-Lago members access to the beach.

The teen stood in line to pass through a metal detector operated by the Secret Service.

"Mr. Lindblom was wanded by Secret Service agents and he walked on through," his attorney, Marcos Beaton, told federal Judge William Matthewman.

Trump and his family were in residence at the time.

Matthewman said he was convinced Lindblom did no harm and sentenced him to probation

Canadians wouldn't get off property in March 2020

A Canadian couple parked their pickup in a driveway at Mar-a-Lago in March 2020 and like many interlopers, began taking pictures.

Police spotted Katherine Kam Fung Poon with a camera and told her and her companion, Aaron Lee Mennie, that they were not welcome there. The couple told the officers that they were from out of country and thought they could drive through.

They got off the property and after a couple of hours, came back. When they were told again to leave, Mennie refused and continued to drive to the back. Police approached and told them to get out of the truck — several times. When they wouldn't get out, police bashed in both front passenger windows and arrested them .

Mennied and Poon pleaded guilty "in their best interest" and were sentence to 60 days in jail.

The night shots were fired in the lobby of Trump's Doral golf resort

It did not happen in Palm Beach County, but it still rates as the most violent incident at a Trump South Florida property.

Just after 1:30 a.m. on May 18, 2018, a gunman walked into the the lobby of the Trump National Doral and opened fire at the roof and chandeliers while shouting anti-Trump statements. Five police officers, four from the City of Doral police department and one from Miami-Dade County, arrived on scene and confronted the gunman.

T he officers and the gunman, later identified Jonathan Oddi, age 42 at the time, then fired shots at each other. Oddi was wounded and transported to Kendall Regional Medical Center with a non-life-threatening injury. A Miami-Dade officer suffered a broken arm during the confrontation. No resort employees were injured.

A police spokesperson said investigators believed Oddi had entered the resort on foot under the cover of darkness. Before entering the lobby, he had obtained one of the resort's U.S. flags, which police said he draped on a counter before pulling the trigger.

Holly Baltz is the investigations editor at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach her at .