Posted on 04/19/2021 8:45:19 PM PDT by rxsid
Thug who allegedly shot at Minneapolis National Guard and police has been arrested
Following the unhinged rant by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, someone decided to open fire on a group of Minneapolis National Guard and police officers on Sunday, injuring two. Now, a suspect has been arrested and charged for the crime.
Andrew Thomas, 28, has been charged as a felon in possession of a firearm. He will appear Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Katherine M. Menendez in U.S. District Court. According to a DoJ press release:
According to the allegations in the criminal complaint, during the early morning hours of April 18, 2021, a team of Minnesota National Guard soldiers, along with an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, was stationed at the corner of Penn Avenue North and West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis. At approximately 4:20 a.m., a light-colored SUV driving on West Broadway Avenue fired multiple shots at the team. One bullet went through the windshield of the team’s military vehicle, which held four soldiers. Two soldiers of the Minnesota National Guard sustained minor injuries: one was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries from shattered glass; the other was treated at the scene for superficial wounds.The criminal complaint also alleges that during the late evening hours of April 18, 2021, Minneapolis Police officers patrolling the area of 6th Street South and Cedar Avenue South encountered a 2002 Ford Explorer that matched the description of the SUV involved in the shooting. After conducting a felony stop of the vehicle, the driver, later identified as THOMAS, and a juvenile passenger, were placed in separate police cars. After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, officers recovered from the vehicle a Springfield Armory XD-9 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a .22 caliber revolver with an obliterated serial number, ammunition, and two discharged cartridge casings. Because THOMAS has a prior felony conviction in Hennepin County, he is prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition at any time.
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I couldn’t have been Adam Toledo.
Mama-thug Maxine, who instigated it, should be arrested too.
Remember the fact that Minnesota AG is Keith Ellison (former Rep. Ellison - D-Minn), who is a racist, Marxist and reportedly a member of the Nation of Islam (Farrakhan).
He can screw up any prosecution unless it becomes a federal case, which it could since federal firearms laws were violated. State prosecution would be for the shootings, illegal possessions, felon in illegal possession of a weapon, etc.
This is going to be very interesting.
"4/20" can also refer to April 20, 1889 (Braunau am Inn, Austria).
Regards,
If this is him his Facebook page is instructive. https://www.facebook.com/GuitarSandwich
Not even gonna say it... it writes itself, really.
watch and see, all charges will either be dropped or he’ll be allowed to plead to a much less serious crime and get a slap on the wrist.
Accountability and adherence to laws on the books will work wonders if used at every opportunity.
charged as a felon
He’s not going to like a federal prison one bit it’s called hard time for a reason.
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