RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — An armed Las Vegas man arrested about a half-mile from former president Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in the Coachella Valley intended to kill the Republican presidential nominee, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told The Press-Enterprise on Sunday.
Vem Miller, 49, had a shotgun, loaded handgun and high-capacity magazine when Riverside County sheriff’s deputies made contact with him, police said, adding he was taken into custody and booked into county jail for possessing a loaded gun and high-capacity magazine.
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