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Speaker 1 0:00
May have tried to tell me, but I didn't bring my phone, and that's how they would have notified me. I know we're actively trying to track that down, as well as secret service in the FBI, but

Unknown Speaker 0:09
so who's investigating now?

Speaker 1 0:13
Our investigation is relatively done, the continuation will be a cooperation between us, the Secret Service and the FBI, more than likely, federal charges like that would be headed by the FBI. I can't say that for sure, but it's a combination of all three. And I, and I will say, the the working relationship and the the effort that we, all the federal agencies and the sheriff's office put into this going in was seamless. We the communication is great. I have no complaints, and it's certainly by me telling you it's someone else's investigation. That's just the nature of a federal crime, if they are ever able to prove that it was assassination attempted, and I'm not saying they're going to be able to, but anything like that would be federal, the state crimes are the weapons charges that we arrested him for someone

Speaker 2 1:04
posted on social media that both you and he were apparently, coincidentally at a premiere of a movie, line in the sand, a title like that. You don't know this guy, do you? You've never met him or anything.

Speaker 1 1:20
No, I do not. I have, I have absolutely no idea. Okay, when you originally stated

Unknown Speaker 1:26
his name, you said it was an astronaut.

Speaker 1 1:28
So the yes and I maybe I just didn't emphasize that enough at the end. So the name that he has given us is Vem Miller. That's what he was booked under. But the he had multiple passports and IDS with different names. And

Unknown Speaker 1:41
then also you stated at the event that

Speaker 1 1:44
was 25,000 people. The lady you said, 50,000 Do we have a better count of we don't have a total yet. There are two different numbers, though, because of the amount of people that were actually made it inside the the venue. And then the way it works is once the once the former president takes the stage, nothing else moves. So if you weren't in by then, you did not get in. And the we do know that there were plenty of pre screenings that had happened at parking lots before, and we know that there were multiple 1000s of people that that did not get in based on timing. So we have an idea of how many people were inside and outside, and we don't have an exact number, but that's, that's the reason why I would have said two different things, sovereign citizens. It's, it's a, I don't know any in a law enforcement world, that's what we that's what we call them. That's what they call themselves, sovereign citizens. And it's just a, it's a a political belief, if you will, that that government rules and laws and and everything else that goes along with it doesn't apply to them.

Unknown Speaker 2:58
So this is an organized

Speaker 3 3:00
group, and this group, they have a lot of members here in Riverside

Speaker 1 3:04
Council. I won't say they have a lot law enforcement across the country. We train on how to deal with them, just because of the verbiage that they use when they interact with us. They believe that they don't have they're not necessarily toward us violent or confrontational, but we it's obviously don't ever want to answer our questions. They don't believe they need driver's licenses. They don't believe you know this. Then this vehicle goes along with it. They don't register their vehicles. This was an unregistered car that we had to go through VIN number and manufacture process to to verify that it was a legitimate car. It actually did belong to him. It's just, we know it was sold to him. It just was not ever registered. Have they shown a propensity for violence? Sometimes they do. But I wouldn't say, I can't say, as an organization as a whole, but obviously, like a lot of different groups, bad apples give a group a bad name. And there certainly are people that are but I I'm not going to say that that group as a whole was a violent

Speaker 3 4:04
group. I do understand what you said earlier. You don't know what this was or what it might have been, but when you see a vehicle with two guns, boxes of ammunition, different license plates and passports, and somebody claims to be with this group that you've described as being right wing. First thing that goes through your mind is what

Speaker 1 4:26
I need to thank that Deputy for doing his job. That was the first thing that went through my mind. And it was like I probably said to somebody or around somebody that's been either printed or reprinted in social media, that I truly do believe that we prevented another assassination attempt, and it was it was solely by our effort of keeping those type of people out. It's

Speaker 4 4:51
also said that he had a high capacity magazine. Would that be used for the shotgun as a street sweeper for the pistol,

Speaker 1 4:58
it was for the hand? And the high capacity magazine was for the Hampton, these

Speaker 2 5:03
different names on the passports, and I think, did you also say driver's licenses? Yes, were these, like, tiny variations of the Name, or, like, you know, Fred Brown,

Speaker 1 5:12
I won't get into specifics, but it was both of you, the question that you're asking. Okay, any

Speaker 2 5:18
details about another individual linked to a potential bomb threat at the event as well.

Speaker 1 5:24
We know that there were no not linked to an individual or specifics that I can give you. We are aware of our dogs and federal dogs that hit on people or things that that we ended up not letting in, but I don't, I don't have any specifics on anything like that. There was nothing that came, nothing that rose to this level,

Unknown Speaker 5:53
anything else.

Unknown Speaker 5:55
Okay, thank you for coming. I

Unknown Speaker 6:12
Jen, Jen.

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