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Coachella, California – A man armed with guns and a false press pass was apprehended by authorities at a campaign rally in California on Saturday being held by former President Donald Trump.
The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from an entrance to the rally in Coachella Valley, California soon before the rally began, police said Sunday.
“We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside county sheriff Chad Bianco said, adding that Miller was plotting to kill Trump.
Police said Miller was carrying a loaded shotgun, handgun and high-capacity magazine and is believed to be a member of a rightwing anti-government organization.
He holds a UCLA master’s degree, and in 2022 ran for Nevada state assembly. Bianco said Miller considers himself a so-called sovereign citizen, a group of people who do not believe they are subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them.
Bianco said Miller’s identity card was enough to raise suspicion with local rally security. “They were different enough to cause the deputies alarm,” he said, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Miller was booked for possessing a loaded firearm and a high capacity magazine – and was released after posting $5,000 bail, police records show.
“The incident did not impact the safety of former president Trump or attendees of the event,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release.
However, law enforcement sources told The New York Post that the FBI does not believe this was an assassination attempt, and the former president’s life was never in danger.
Miller is a registered Republican and was booked for possessing a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine and was released after posting $5,000 bail, police records show.
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