The Study of Racialism

gemini072 · Moderator Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 2695 }

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17293887/detail.html

The FBI said Monday night that at least four people were under arrest on firearms and drug charges in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama during his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday night. The U.S. attorney’s office in Denver has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon to discuss its investigation.

http://www.koin.com/content/news/topstories/story.aspx?content_id=2dded07d-891c-47c9-af44-2cd51fbbc575

DENVER, Colo. - The FBI has arrested four people in connection with an alleged assassination plot against presidential candidate Barack Obama.

FBI agents say the suspects planned to use high-power rifles to kill Obama in Denver, where Democrats are holding their national convention.

Local police in Aurora, Colorado say it started with an overnight traffic stop early Sunday. A police sergeant pulled over an erratic driver. That driver, 28-year-old Tharin Robert Gartrell, had a suspended license so the officer looked closer: in the rented Dodge Ram truck were two rifles - one of them apparently stolen in Kansas - as well as ammunition, bullet proof vests, and drugs.

That 1:30 a.m. arrest Sunday led to two other arrests early Sunday:
33-year-old Nathan Johnson, arrested 4:30 a.m. Sunday in a Denver hotel; and 33-year-old Shawn robert Adolf, arrested at 5 a.m. at a hotel in Aurora. Adolf jumped from an upper-story window trying to get away, and injured himself; he was caught a couple of blocks away. When he later told police that he and his friends "planned to kill Barack Obama", the alarm went out to the FBI, the CIA, Colorado State Police and a host of local agencies.

Another suspect, a woman, is also being held and questioned by the FBI, and other arrests may follow. Aurora Police say the suspects have given federal agents several other names to check out.

What is unclear is whether they could have actually pulled off their attempt. One of the suspects told police their plan was to kill Obama during his Thursday night acceptance speech. If so, it's not clear how, or if, they planned to get a rifle inside the convention hall.

Whether this particular threat was credible or not, the suspects did have high-power rifles and ammunition, and at least one of them said they wanted to kill Obama. Law enforcement officers are glad to get them off the streets.

PassingWoman · New User Joined: 26 May 2008 {Posts: 23 }

The problem is, the next ones may not be as brilliant as to be running around with drugs (probably doing the drugs as well) and getting caught in trafiic stops....

~PW