A 49-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested near former President Donald Trump's rally in Coachella with a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine, officials say.

A 49-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested near former President Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella on Saturday with a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday.

Deputies assigned to the rally contacted the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint near the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive just before 5 p.m. Saturday, sheriff’s officials said.

They allegedly found the driver in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine. The driver was identified as Vem Miller, and was taken into custody and later booked at the John J. Benoit Detention Center on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm and possessing a high-capacity magazine.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        101·
        3 months ago

        If he’s a SovCit, I’m surprised he doesn’t have an RPG in his car to be honest. And it wouldn’t have anything to do with Trump. It would have to do with their contract being violated or whatever.

        • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
          51·
          3 months ago

          Most SovCits live in a trailer and drive a $500 car. There’s no way they’re getting their hands on an RPG.

          • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            I think you’d be surprised what people can afford to buy when they prioritize their spending… especially in the deserts of CA. I’ve met people out there with actual functioning canons that regularly fire freaking canonballs into the mountains, and to look at them you would guess they are both homeless and heroic addicts who haven’t bathed in a week… and you would only be wrong on the homeless part, and only partly wrong on that one.

            • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 months ago

              I met a guy once who was poor as shit, and had recently had to sell his car. He apparently owned a machine gun, and he carried around his little… certificate or whatever it is that he got from the ATF indicating he owned it and showed the paper to anyone that would pay attention to him.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 months ago

            I may possibly not have been serious.

            But also, as you will see if you hang out with us at InsanePeopleFacebook, plenty of them drive nice cars. And they can afford to pay lots of money to grifters who claim to tell them the cheat codes to beat the system.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      10·
      3 months ago

      It’s kind of amazing how this is suddenly all blowing back on him. His years of calling for violence is just causing all these guys to aim that violence towards him. Did he say something that pissed off/disappointed a subset of his followers or something?

      • Sciaphobia@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        The problem with riling up crazy people is they are crazy, and as a result somewhat unpredictable.