A person was arrested Saturday exterior former President Trump’s rally in Riverside County on suspicion of unlawful possession of a shotgun, handgun and high-capacity journal, sheriff’s officers stated.
Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas was booked on the John J. Benoit Detention Middle in Indio on prices of possessing loaded firearms, Riverside County sheriff’s officers stated in a information launch.
Deputies discovered the weapons and journal after looking Miller’s black SUV at a checkpoint at Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive in Coachella about 5 p.m., authorities stated.
The arrest “did not impact the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event,” sheriff’s officers stated. No different details about Miller or the incident was instantly out there.
Trump narrowly prevented an assassination try in July at a rally in Butler, Pa. A bullet grazed his ear earlier than snipers assigned to his Secret Service element killed the gunman, Thomas Crooks, who had opened fireplace from the roof of a close-by constructing. A rally attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed shielding his household from the gunfire.
In September, police arrested a person close to Trump’s golf membership in West Palm Seashore, Fla. They believe that Ryan Routh supposed to shoot the previous president with an SKS rifle whereas hiding within the shrubbery lining the golf membership.
Prosecutors say Routh possessed a handwritten record of dates and venues the place Trump was anticipated to seem.
Routh is charged with making an attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate, possessing a firearm in furtherance of against the law of violence, assaulting a federal officer), possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial quantity.
