Man arrested with guns near Trump Coachella rally had "homemade" license plate, multiple passports, sheriff says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: October 13, 2024 / 8:43 PM EDT


Deputies assigned to former President Donald Trump's rally in California's Coachella Valley arrested a Las Vegas man Saturday at a checkpoint for allegedly having a loaded firearm, a shotgun and a high-capacity magazine.

The suspect, identified by deputies as 49-year-old Vem Miller of Las Vegas, Nevada, was pulled over in a black SUV at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive in Coachella before Trump arrived at the location for his rally, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.

During a news conference on Sunday, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, whose department assisted in security measures for the event, said that Miller's car had an "obviously fake license plate" that prompted the department to investigate further.

In a news release Sunday, the department said that the suspect was "illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine." Bianco said Miller's vehicle was unregistered and that multiple passports and driver's licenses with different names were found inside.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-arrested-at-checkpoint-near-trump-rally-in-coachella-valley-for-allegedly-possessing-illegal-firearms/

[BaronChocula]

1. I'll withhold all my speculation

because I'm responsible like that.
But you probably know what I want to say based on the profile of the suspect. You know you wanna say it too.

[Walleye]

2. Probably a Kyle Rittenhouse type. He was there to protect the white people.

[TommyT139]

3. "Sovereign citizen" UPDATE

Last edited Mon Oct 14, 2024, 07:43 AM - Edit history (1)

Seems to be part of the Sovereign Citizen movement. So, certainly not a Democrat, and also, somewhat shockingly, technically not a Trumpist.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/who-is-vem-miller-what-we-know-about-suspect-arrested-near-trump-coachella-rally/ar-AA1scJ1e

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UPDATE
This thread https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219564700
Indicates the guy is indeed a trumpist. My reasoning was that historically, Sovereign Citizens have denied the existence of the US government's authority (they're crazy pants and worth reading up on). The fact that this wacko is indeed a trumpist, claims to have been invited to the rally, and -- crucially -- was released from custody(!) says to me that the coalition supporting Trump is far far more dangerous than ever before.

[Attilatheblond]

28. "Sovereign citizen" BINGO! Home made license plate is a pretty good clue

Those guys just don't recognize anything/anybody but their own little boy fantasies. Only thing more annoying are those 'Constitutional Sheriff' types who insist they are the be all/end all final voice on what is and isn't the law.

[Figarosmom]

4. Sounds like a

Regular trump supporter to me.

[jimfields33]

5. Post 3 says no.

[Lunabell]

6. The man says, "yes."

Miller denied any claims of attempting to harm Trump, telling Fox News Digital on Sunday that he reported the guns to authorities at the checkpoint to enter the rally and that he always travels with the weapons. He said he is “100% a Trump supporter.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/trump-coachella-rally-man-arrested/index.html

[TommyT139]

14. I edited my comment.

Things are getting worse fast. The Sovereign Citizen movement is worth reading up on.

[ratchiweenie]

20. We got a good look at who they are during the Oregon Malheur National Wildlife Refuge disaster. They are the worst of

the worst and their numbers keep growing.

[travelingthrulife]

22. And...the government keeps letting them get away with this behavior

The sheriff released him? With a fake license plate, multiple passports and gunz. Yep. America's sheriffs are a problem.

[TommyT139]

12. Please see my edit/update.

[Figarosmom]

31. Sovereign guys

Are very much Maga. Look at the Bundys. They think trump loves them. He'll certainly use them

[mopinko]

7. maybe he was there to assassinate reporters.

ya know, the enemies of dear leader.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Part of the "stand back/stand by" crowd

ready to "take out the libs".

[mopinko]

17. "take down the mags. they're not here to hurt me."

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Failed infiltrator. Thieves know a stolen plate beats homemade.

He could have at least used a color copier. Probably hammered it out of a milk carton.

[obamanut2012]

10. He is a SovCit

[littlemissmartypants]

13. ...

[purr-rat beauty]

11. So, let me get this straight

They're gonna call this another attempt?

Guns were at the Capitol, outside the Capitol

They gonna change their tune about tourists now?

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Is it true that...

The rally was on a field owned and operated by a manure farmer?

Don't shoot the messenger. I read it with a map posted somewhere.

I probably read too much.



❤️pants

Happy Monday, BRDS!

[riversedge]

16. I read it was a former manure farm but do not know about who operates it now.

[AleksS]

32. As soon as trump was done speaking it was a

former manure farm.

While he was speaking, it was just a manure farm.

[mopinko]

18. i'm still trying to figure out what a manure farm is.

i assume it’s a cafo and they were in a field where they spread the manure to age it.
but nobody wants manure. nobody goes out of their way to produce manure.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Farmers where...

I am routinely spread manure. It's loaded onto trailers and dumped where you want it for a fee.

So...

There is a market for both turkey and chicken manure that I'm aware of here at the farm. I am not alone either.





❤️pants

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Found it...former manure farm...

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When the Trump Campaign says, “Coachella” rally, what they really mean is Calhoun Ranch (red), a former manure farm.

Link to tweet

[twodogsbarking]

21. Good guy with a gun. Good people on both sides. Dog shit tastes like chocolate.

All lies.

[Wonder Why]

23. Yet, again, another right-winger. They'd rather shoot libs but a target is a target.

[twodogsbarking]

24. It was not Mike Pence. Really, don't believe otherwise.

[C Moon]

25. That OC sheriff is the guy who fought

Governor Newsom over every COVID mandate the governor put our during the height of the pandemic. Probably a trumpster through and through—putting his politics before health and safety.

[BoRaGard]

26. Yet another Republicon gun nut on the loose

what the Hell is wrong with the republicons?

Soul sickness supremo.

[Island Blue]

27. Have fun in jail, Vern.

Doesn’t matter now if you believe that you don’t have to follow the rules.

[Orrex]

29. So much for "third time's the charm"

Golly! Republicans sure do like to restrict gun rights when they're afraid for their own lives, whether it's NRA rallies, RNC conventions, or Trump's KKKult meetings. Why do they hate their sacrosanct second amendment?

[PurgedVoter]

30. Yes but they let him out on bail cause like he is a Sovereign Citizen and like they got no right to hold you cause

he's like a Libertarian who invented everything from scratch even his genes are brand new created by him when he created himself and the roads are all his cause he imagined them into being and if you don't like it he's gonna take back all the land he created by the act of his own immaculate birth and give it all to Somalia since it's the only free nation or make up another country on a defunct oil rig that doesn't have any damn rules except the long list of them he will impose on everyone else nearby cause LIBERTY!