Police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents have arrested an Arizona man for allegedly making death threats against the president-elect. Donald Trump And his family and trying to buy guns illegally.
According to court documents, the suspect, Manuel Tamayo Torres, also posted photos of a Trump rally in Glendale in August — a rally that took place less than six weeks after the first assassination attempt on Trump’s life. Butler, Pennsylvania.
He was convicted of assault causing great bodily injury in California in 2003, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison. Then in July 2023, his ex-wife obtained a restraining order against him in Arizona.
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Both his felony history and active restraining order prohibited him from possessing firearms, but on November 13 and again on November 15, 2023, he went to a Shooters World store in Phoenix, Arizona, and a 4473 form for background checks. filled in check
Those efforts were “delayed” and “denied” — but now prosecutors say he lied on the form. He reportedly claimed he never did. has been declared guilty A felony and that he was not the subject of a child or intimate partner restraining order.
A low-resolution photo from court documents allegedly shows Manuel Tamayo Torres posing with a gun. (U.S. District Court Southern District of California)
Phoenix police then discovered that on Facebook, Tamayo-Torres posted a series of videos where he claimed to be “Individual 1,” who was never named but described in court documents as “former president and current president. Described as “the chosen”, her children were trafficked.
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Tamayo-Torres claimed that the incoming president “[W]and conspired to kill her daughter and take her other children.
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Former President Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“You Caucasians are nothing,” Tamayo-Torres allegedly quipped in a Facebook video posted Thursday. “You won’t earn anything, Erin. Money, that’s all you’ve got. You’re a young man. I’ll spit in your mother’s face, and I’ll bury you myself if she gives me the chance.” I am.”
Police also found another video, posted a few days earlier, of Tamayo-Torres allegedly holding a “white AR-15-style rifle” with a 30-round magazine, pointing “at the president-elect.” was accused of “touching his minor children”. And said the first family to come and the Secret Service would all go to jail.
Former President Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after he was shot at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Evan Vokey)
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When detectives investigated his Facebook account, they found photos from Aug. 23 at the Desert Diamond Arena. in Glendale. Trump held a rally there that night. They also found other photos of the suspect holding firearms, none of which he legally possessed.
Tamayo-Torres was arrested in Southern California and is expected to be extradited back to Arizona to face federal charges there.