Page 4 - aruba-today-20240925

A4 U.S. NEWS
Wednesday 25 september 2024
FBI: Son of suspect in Trump assassination attempt arrested on

child sexual abuse images charges

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER possessing stolen goods in
Associated Press 2002 in North Carolina, and
WASHINGTON (AP) — The with possessing a firearm
son of the man suspected with an obliterated serial
in the assassination attempt number.
in Florida against former But a prosecutor said in
President Donald Trump court Monday that they
has been arrested on fed- would pursue additional
eral charges of possessing charges before a grand
child sexual abuse images. jury, accusing him of hav-
Oran Alexander Routh was ing tried to “assassinate
arrested this week after a major political candi-
authorities searched his date” charges that would
Greensboro, North Caro- warrant life in prison in the
lina, home “in connection event of a conviction.
with an investigation unre- It is common for prosecutors
lated to child exploitation,” to file more easily provable
and found hundreds of charges as an immediate
files depicting child sexual placeholder before adding
abuse, an FBI agent said in more significant allegations
court papers. as the case proceeds.
Investigators who seized Ryan Routh was arrested
multiple electronic de- Sept. 15 after a Secret Ser-
vices found videos sent to The seal of the Department of Justice, Aug. 1, 2023, at the Department of Justice in Washington. vice agent who was scop-
Oran Routh in July as well Associated Press ing the Trump International
as chats from a messag- Golf Club for potential se-
ing application commonly were not immediately re- reported Tuesday by ABC where Trump was to ap- curity threats saw a par-
used by people who share turned. News. pear. The note describing tially obscured man’s face
child sexual abuse mate- Oran Routh’s father, Ryan A federal judge on Mon- Routh’s plans was placed and the barrel of a semiau-
rial, the FBI agent said. Wesley Routh, has been day agreed with Justice in a box that he dropped tomatic rifle, aimed directly
He faces two charges of charged with federal gun Department prosecutors off months earlier at the at the former president.
possessing and receiving offenses in connection to that Ryan Routh should re- home of an unidentified The agent fired at Routh,
child sexual abuse material the attempted assassina- main locked up while he person who did not open it who sped away before be-
and is expected to appear tion at Trump’s Florida golf awaits trial in his case. until after Ryan Routh’s ar- ing stopped by officials in a
later Tuesday in federal course earlier this month. Prosecutors have said Ryan rest, prosecutors said. neighboring county, leav-
court in North Carolina. Prosecutors have indi- Routh left behind a note Ryan Routh is currently ing behind a loaded rifle,
There was no attorney listed cated much more serious detailing his plans to kill charged with illegally pos- digital camera, a back-
for Oran Routh in court pa- attempted assassination the former president and sessing his gun in spite of pack and a reusable shop-
pers. Phone messages left charges are coming. kept in his car a handwrit- multiple felony convictions, ping bag that was hanging
for relatives of Oran Routh Oran Routh’s arrest was first ten list of dates and venues including two charges of from a chain-link fence.q

Capitol rioter mistakenly released from prison after appeals court

ruling, prosecutors say

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN before he finished serving Department prosecutors court order.” The bureau’s tifying President Joe Biden
Associated Press his 30-month sentence for said in a court filing this statement doesn’t elabo- ‘s electoral victory over
The federal Bureau of Pris- storming the Senate cham- week. rate on the reason for the Donald Trump.
ons mistakenly released ber during a mob’s attack Leo Christopher Kelly of Ce- error, but it says that Kelly, In June, however, the U.S.
an Iowa man from custody on the U.S. Capitol, Justice dar Rapids was freed last 39, reported to a probation Supreme Court limited the
Thursday after an appeals officer “as instructed” and government’s use of that
court agreed to throw out remains free while awaiting obstruction charge. The
one of his convictions stem- a resentencing hearing. justices ruled 6-3 that the
ming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Prosecutors also are ask- charge of obstructing an
riot. ing the judge to schedule official proceeding must
But prosecutors believe Kel- a hearing for resentencing include proof that defen-
ly’s release was a mistake now that Kelly’s only felony dants tried to tamper with
because he only served 11 conviction has been tossed or destroy documents.
months of his 30-month sen- by the federal appeals After the ruling, prosecu-
tence. In a court filing Mon- court for the District of Co- tors and defense attorney
day, they asked U.S. District lumbia circuit. Nicholas Smith joined in
Judge Royce Lamberth for In May 2023, a jury convict- asking the appeals court to
a hearing to address Kelly’s ed Kelly of all seven counts vacate Kelly’s obstruction
release. in his indictment. conviction.
The Bureau of Prisons told One of his convictions was His remaining convictions
The Associated Press that for a charge that he ob- were for misdemeanor of-
In this image from Senate Television, Leo Christopher Kelly, Kelly was “inadvertently structed an official pro- fenses. Smith declined to
walks on the floor in the Senate chamber Jan. 6, 2021, at the released” last week after ceeding, the Jan. 6 joint comment Tuesday on pros-
U.S. Capitol in Washington. a “misinterpretation of a session of Congress for cer- ecutors’ filing.q
Associated Press