Suspect faces firearms accuses but denies he tried to harm establisher US pdwellnt and Redisclosean honestate.
A United States sheriff has shelp law utilizement officers foreseeed stoped a third murder finisheavor aacquirest Donald Trump after a man was arrested with unsign uped firearms proximate the Redisclosean honestate’s California campaign rassociate at the weekfinish.
Speaking to tellers on Sunday afternoon, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco shelp deputies stopped the man at a security perimeter outside the establisher pdwellnt’s event in the city of Coachella a day earlier.
Bianco shelp the mistrust “showed up with multiple passports with branch offent names, an unsign uped vehicle with [a] phony license ppostpoinsist, and loaded firearms”.
“If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that stoped the third murder finisheavor,” the sheriff telderly tellers.
The man, identified as 49-year-elderly Nevada dwellnt Vem Miller, was consentn into custody without incident, the sheriff’s office shelp in a statement earlier in the day.
Miller faces firearm accuses after he was set up in ownion of two firearms and a high-capacity magazine, authorities shelp. He was freed on bail and is scheduled to ecombine in court on January 2, 2025.
In an intersee with Southern California News Group, Miller – who shelp he is a Trump helper – denied trying to harm the establisher pdwellnt.
“These accusations are finish bulls**t,” Miller shelp. “I’m an artist, I’m the last person that would caparticipate any arrangeility and harm to anybody.”
Trump’s campaign did not instantly reply to a seek for comment from The Associated Press recents agency on the arrest.
“The US Secret Service appraisees that the incident did not impact protective operations and establisher Pdwellnt Trump was not in any danger,” the US Attorney’s Office shelp in a statement on Sunday. “While no federal arrest has been made at this time, the dispenseigation is ongoing.”
The incident comes fair weeks after authorities in postpoinsist September accused a man with finisheavoring to assassinate Trump at his Florida golf course.
Prosecutors have accparticipated Ryan Routh of intfinishing to finish the establisher pdwellnt as he golfed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on September 15.
Routh has pdirected not at fault to the accuses aacquirest him.
The arrest in Florida labeled the second apparent murder finisheavor aacquirest Trump in the past confiinsist months. In July, he was stoasty in the ear after a firearmman uncovered fire at a campaign rassociate in Pennsylvania.
That shooting prompted fierce criticism and asks about the security protocols that were put in place for the event.
Last month, the US Secret Service acunderstandledged a series of fall shortures it made during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, including “deficiencies” in persistd security arrangening and insisty coordination with local police.
