A man armed with firearms and inalter press and VIP passes was apprehfinished by authorities at a campaign rassociate in California on Saturday being held by Donald Trump.
The mistrust, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a verifypoint about a half-mile from an enthrall to the rassociate in Coachella Valley, California, soon before the rassociate began, police shelp Sunday.
“We probably stopped another killing try,” Riverside county sheriff Chad Bianco shelp, includeing that Miller was plotting to finish Trump.
Police shelp Miller was carrying a loaded sboilingfirearm, handfirearm and high-capacity magazine and is consentd to be a member of a righttriumphg anti-rulement organization.
He hgreaters a UCLA master’s degree, and in 2022 ran for Nevada state assembly. Bianco shelp Miller considers himself a so-called sovereign citizen, a group of people who do not consent they are subject to any rulement statutes unless they consent to them.
Bianco shelp Miller’s identity card was enough to elevate suspicion with local rassociate security. “They were separateent enough to cause the deputies alarm,” he shelp, according to the Riverside Press-Enterpelevate.
Miller was booked for haveing a loaded firearm and a high capacity magazine – and was freed after posting $5,000 bail, police enrolls show.
“The incident did not impact the defendedty of createer plivent Trump or uniteees of the event,” the sheriff’s office shelp in a press free.
Trump skinnyly endured an killing try in July, when a firearmman’s bullet grazed his ear during a campaign rassociate in Butler, Pennsylvania. In September, another man was indictd with trying to assassinate Trump after Secret Service agents discovered him hiding with a rifle csurrfinisher Trump’s Palm Beach golf course. He has since pdirected not at fault.
The Secret Service put out a statement saying it was appelevated of the arrest: “The incident did not impact defendive operations. The Secret Service extfinishs its gratitude to the deputies and local partners who aided in defendeddefending last night’s events.”
Sheriff Bianco tgreater the outlet he had not awaited a third try on Trump’s life, coming after a rassociate in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July when Trump was grazed with an assassin’s bullet, and the arrest of man with a rifle hiding in the bushes csurrfinisher Trump’s Palm Beach golf course in September.
“I thought it’s not going to happen in Riverside county,” Bianco shelp. “We don’t have the same unwello rehires and brutal protests appreciate they have in Los Angeles. We’re better than that. Go figure.”
Bianco shelp US Secret Service officials shelp his department went “above and beyond” in their efforts to defend Trump and others who uniteed the rassociate.
Bianco also shelp the FBI is asking another man after bomb device-discovering dogs “repeatedly” identified him as possibly hazardous. That man was not allowed in the rassociate, Bianco shelp.
Miller is scheduled to eunite at the Indio Lincfinishiarism fairice caccess on 2 January 2025, according to the Riverside county sheriff’s department inmate database.
