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28-year-old Tharin Gartrell is one of four people being held in possible Obama assassination plot (Aurora, Colorado Police mug shot)
A pair of men have been arrested in the Denver metro area after one of them was found to have methamphetamine and numerous guns, including a “sniper rifle,” during a routine traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado. The Secret Service, ATF, and local US Attorney’s office are investigating. Ernest Luning has more details at our sister site, Colorado Independent.
Update: Denver’s CBS affiliate is reporting that four people are now being held in the case, and that one of the suspects told investigators their plan was to “shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.” As Colorado Independent notes, the FBI is poo-pooing the seriousness of the threat: ““It could also turn out that these were nothing but a bunch of knuckleheads, meth heads.” More details from Colorado Indy.
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Comment posted August 26, 2008 @ 9:04 am
It's hardly surprising that a few yahoos have this idea, given that racism isn't exactly an appeal to our better angels. If only 1 person in a million is this nutty, we have 300 of them walking around the USofA – an average of 6 per state. Looks like they got most of Colorado's quotient here.
Good thing the FBI is on this so early. It's gotta be hard to track every whack job in this nation.
Comment posted August 27, 2008 @ 2:39 am
Hard to shoot straight stoned. What a bunch of idiots.
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