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Posted on 09/25/2025 11:45:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
A radical magistrate judge denied the Justice Department’s request to detain a man who tried to take down Marine One with a red laser pointer.
The Justice Department on Monday charged a man for trying to take down Marine One with a red pointer laser on Saturday.
According to a legal complaint filed on Monday, the suspect, Jacob Samuel Winkler, pointed a red laser at Marine One while President Trump was onboard.
“The red laser beam hit Officer Santiago’s eyes and briefly disoriented him. At this time, Marine One flew at a relatively low height and directly above Officer Santiago and [Winkler’s] location. Marine One was close enough that the rotor noise was loud, and the aircraft appeared large overhead. Officer Santiago approached [Winkler] after being flashed in the face with the red laser. Upon approach, [Winkler] looked up, oriented the same red laser pointer at the direction of Marine One and activated the red laser beam,” the legal complaint said.
“From Officer Santiago’s training and experience, Officer Santiago immediately identified [Winkler’s] action as a danger to Marine One and everyone on-board. [Winkler’s] conduct posed a risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation, especially during low-level flight near other helicopters (U.S. Park Police, U.S. Marine Corps) and the Washington Monument. This placed Marine One at risk of an airborne collision,” the complaint said.
Winkler was immediately put in handcuffs.
According to the complaint, after Winkler was handcuffed, he got on his knees and said, “I should apologize to Donald Trump,” and “I apologize to Donald Trump.”
“The defendant, Jacob Samuel Winkler, did knowingly aim the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, or at the flight path of such an aircraft,” the complaint read.
Winkler was charged with 18 U.S. Code § 39A, a law that prohibits aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui denied the DOJ’s request to detain Winkler and the case has been assigned to Obama-appointed Beryl Howell.
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The anti-Americans are identifying themselves thanks to Trump.
Another ObamaBot
Yet another son of the prophet.
Accomplice after the fact.
Weakness. Why are they listening to that scuzzlim and why is this scuzzlim still a judge? All talk, little action. Much fecklessness.
Judges should have no part in this what so ever
Magistrate Judge is kind of like a deputy judge in the federal district court.
Not an Article III District Court Judge, but handles assigned duties from such judges.
His word is not final.
I’ve been thinking for a few months now that we need to extend the “natural born citizen” requirement to all federal executive, legislative, and judicial offices ... and define exactly what natural born citizen means.
Judge Zia M. Faruqui
Do they allow actual Americans on the DC Federal Courts any longer? Or is this some new globalist initiative given to the US Deep State by their allies in Davos?
You know it’s getting bad when the judges are harder to understand than customer service on the telephone.
Helicopter pilot should have fired a hellfire missile at the attacker.
If it was you or I we would STILL be in the d.c.-j6 gulag .
Eating rotten sandwiches and going without clean water or toilet paper breathing black mold.
Well, maybe not on the top deck..................
Mark Levin when he was trying to shoehorn Cubamerinadian Ted Cruz was, in effect, advocating this definition for a U.S. Natural Born Citizen:
Anyone born anywhere in the universe to any parents whatsoever, except those of us who were born overseas to two non-U.S. citizen parents.
This Guy goes with the inverse definition:
Noone born anywhere in the universe to any parents whatsoever, except those of us who were born in the United States to two U.S. citizen parents.
If you want precision, and ease of understanding, in the definition of U.S. NBC, it would seem you have to pick one of these definitions, or the other.
If you want the definition to have teeth, and make sense in terms of reliably excluding foreign influence, which is what the drafters and ratifiers of CONUS are known to have intended, it would seem you must go with the latter.
The article doesn't say 'released on his own recognizance', or anything similar. Was there a hearing? If not why does law enforcement need to go before a judge at all at this point? Is this the first time somebody was arrested for lasing an aircraft?
He’s a “Justice of the Peace” level of Federal Judgeships...........
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