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The Latest: Police: Facebook posts led to Comicon arrest
S F Gate ^ | 05/26/2017

Posted on 05/26/2017 9:17:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Phoenix police say there are indications an armed man arrested at Phoenix Comicon is mentally disturbed and that he told detectives he's a crime-fighting comic book character and planned to shoot bad police officers.

Police also say in a probable-cause statement released Friday that officers took Mathew Enrique Nava Sterling into custody at the Phoenix Convention Center after somebody contacted Hawthorne, California, police to report that Sterling was posting threats on Facebook about killing police officers at the Comicon event.

Court documents indicate Sterling lives in suburban Mesa and is 29.

Sterling didn't have an attorney present during an initial court appearance Friday. He spoke only briefly, agreeing when a judge told him it might not be in his interest to comment

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: arizona; comicon; facebook

1 posted on 05/26/2017 9:17:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
he told detectives he's a crime-fighting comic book character

Did he become the fist of goodness, and fall into a dinner party?

2 posted on 05/26/2017 9:24:46 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: Mark17

A crimefighter who was going to kill the police?
Was it Sing Sang Song?


3 posted on 05/26/2017 10:30:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: BenLurkin
the perp
4 posted on 05/26/2017 10:49:18 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (My wish list: https, failover server, six sigma uptime.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Looks a lot like Rosie O’Donnell. Lucky guy. Not to worried I’m sure Leonard, Shelly, Howard and Raj would have stepped in had this guy gotten out of line at Comicon.


5 posted on 05/27/2017 1:55:51 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

If he and Rosie make babies..... oh no, I shudder to think of that!


6 posted on 05/27/2017 3:32:56 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: All

7 posted on 05/27/2017 3:34:52 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: MrEdd

What is his superhero name? BLiMpman?


8 posted on 05/27/2017 5:47:27 AM PDT by nhbob1
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

9 posted on 05/27/2017 5:53:56 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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