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Learning more about the Las Vegas man arrested with guns outside former President Trump's rally in Coachella. Eyewitness News reporter Irene Cruz live in the studio with the latest on that Irene,

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yeah, John, that man had a shotgun, a loaded handgun ammunition and fake passports in his car. He was arrested at a security checkpoint outside former President Trump's rally Saturday night. That's about a quarter of a mile away, and neither Trump nor the event goers were hurt. Now that suspect is 49 year old, Vem Miller, we're working on getting images of him. The Las Vegas resident was driving a black, unregistered SUV with a fake license plate. He claimed to be a journalist, but it wasn't clear if he had any credentials. Deputies assigned to the Coachella rally also noticed his car was in disarray. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says they searched his vehicle. They found weapons, ammo, passports, driver licenses with different names. Miller was arrested on two misdemeanor gun charges. He was released the same day on $5,000 bail. Investigators describe Miller as a sovereign citizen, a fringe group that doesn't believe in government, if

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you're asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt. If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can't say that, holy crap. What did he show up with all of that stuff for and loaded guns? And we're going to, and we're, and I'm going to be accused of being dramatic. We have a serious, serious problem in this country,

Speaker 2 1:42
and just last month, a man in Florida was indicted after investigators say he staked out Trump for 12 hours and wrote about wanting to kill him, and it's been roughly three months since Trump was shot in the air during an assassination attempt at his butler Pennsylvania campaign rally. Now, in this case, the suspect will be in court January 2, Hello,

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