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Authorities Probe Possible Obama Threat
August 25, 2008 9:48 PM
ABC News' Jason Ryan, Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Mary Compton and Theresa Cook Report: Federal and local authorities in Colorado are questioning several suspects to determine if one of the men made a threat against Sen. Barack Obama, who will be in Denver this week to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.
After pulling over Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, for allegedly driving erratically early Sunday morning, police discovered two rifles, one of which is reportedly stolen, a scope, a bulletproof vest, ammunition, walkie-talkies and the drug methamphetamine in the rented 2008 Dodge Ram truck, Aurora Police Detective Marcus Dudley said at a Monday evening press conference.
When authorities questioned Gartrell about the findings, he pointed to an associate of his whom he claimed made a threat against Obama, officials told ABC News.
According to law enforcement sources in Denver, a witness interviewed in the case told investigators that one of suspects allegedly said the guns were to be used to kill the Illinois senator, but authorities do not believe the alleged threat put Obama in immediate danger.
At approximately 4:30 a.m. Sunday, police arrived at a Glendale, Colo. hotel to question another suspect, who jumped from a sixth-floor window in an attempt to evade police. Medical personnel at a Denver area hospital treated him for a broken ankle.
Police arrested both Nathan Johnson, 32, and Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, in connection with the investigation. All three men are in the custody of law enforcement authorities, and all have criminal records, officers said at the press conference.
Authorities told ABC News the men had tattoos of white supremacist images.
State, local and federal investigators are working together to decide which charges they will file against the men. Federal authorities scheduled a Tuesday press conference, and noted that prosecutors anticipate filing federal charges as part of the case.
"This is a methamphetamine and firearms case that arose from a traffic stop made by an Aurora Police officer," a spokesman for the joint law enforcement information center told ABC News. "Firearms and methamphetamines were seized, and a number of individuals are in state custody. The matter continues to be under investigation. We'll provide more information as it becomes available."
The Obama campaign declined to comment on the situation.
The incident comes on the heels of an alleged threat against Obama's rival, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Last Friday, prosectuors charged an inmate at the Arapahoe County, Colo. jail for allegedly mailing a threatening letter laced with powder to the McCain's Denver campaign office. Investigators later determined that the suspicious powder was not toxic.
ABC News' Sunlen Miller contributed to this report.
August 25, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (142)
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I haven't heard anything McCain said was racist, (and believe it would have come out) You are thinking of Biden and Rev Wright. If you want to talk elitism, I don't see any democratic leaders living in the slums, Oh wait I forgot about Obama's brother living in a hut in Kenya on a $1 a month.
Posted by: S Adams | Aug 25, 2008 11:31:00 PM
s adams---of course teh democrats taht are in politics are rich it takes wealth to be in politics..but the vast majority of the hard working middle class and the poor vote democrat..
Posted by: tom | Aug 25, 2008 11:34:06 PM
And somehow this will all be Hillary's fault, too.
Posted by: Lee | Aug 25, 2008 11:45:12 PM
Tom, Take from the hard working rich people and give to the poor. SOCIALISM!!!!!!!
Posted by: S Adams | Aug 25, 2008 11:48:30 PM
s-adams---- i dont want any hand outs just good paying jobs and good benefits..you are mistaking me for the super rich big business that gets all the hand outs when republicans are in office.
Posted by: tom | Aug 25, 2008 11:53:26 PM
s adams---why every time you republicans say because we working class want fair pay for teh work we do you say that is socialism?
Posted by: tom | Aug 25, 2008 11:55:15 PM
I'm sure most americans will find the presence of the white supremacists among us rather disgusting in this day and age.
Obama has achieved a remarkable first but one which puts him at great risk from animals like this. Pathetic
Posted by: Citizen Voter | Aug 26, 2008 12:05:22 AM
Tom - I read this by Paul Krugman - its the paradox of these last few elections in a nutshell. I'm afraid those folks that voted for Bush will just vote for the devil they know again - McCain.
In the world we actually live in, pro-corporate, inequality-increasing Republicans argue that you should vote for them because they’re regular guys you’d like to have a beer with, while Democrats who want to raise taxes on top earners, expand health care and raise the minimum wage are snooty elitists.
Posted by: McGreen | Aug 26, 2008 12:10:15 AM
It is amazing that so many seem threatened by an intelligent, articulate candidate for president. Better to have a beer drinking, inarticulate doddering fraud who fools you into believing he's the friend of the "common man." Oh yeah, we already did that and with disastrous results.So let's go for the same but this time somebody who actually served in the military and was a POW. That should make it ok.
Posted by: Eller | Aug 26, 2008 12:13:05 AM
Publicity stun is all it is ...
Sympathy is what they seek.
Sympathy, they were hoping, will translate to votes in November.
Well, dont be fooled ... Obama has to go because of only 1 thing. Obama DOES NOT have the QUALIFICATIONS to be the President of the United States.
Obama HAS NOT PREPARED HIMSELF TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
OBAMA is an AMBITIOUS MAN OUT TO SEEK ADVANCEMENT FOR OBAMA AND OBAMA ALONE.
AND YOU OBAMAMANIACS WILL GO HOME AFTER THE ELECTION TO EAT THE SAME MEALS YOU HAVE BEEN EATING BEFORE OBAMA BECAME THE PRESIDENT, YOU WILL BE LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE, WEARING THE SAME CLOTHES, GETTING THE SAME PAY CHECK, DRIVING THE SAME CAR ...
AND THE ONLY LIFE THAT HAS IMPROVED IS OBAMA, his wife and his children. He will be flying in air force 1 while you drive in your beatup honda;
He will be served left and right, and you will be cleaning your house yourself, cooking your own food and trimming your own trees ...
Get that picture, dude ...
Obama is not a Clinton, not a Kennedy and definitely not Martin Luther King.
Clintons, Carter, Kennedys and King care for the country and its people. That is their core essence.
BUT NOT OBAMA ... OBAMA is driven by selfish ambition ... and seek a fast track to the White House ... Obama is a NOTHING guy ... a true follower of the Rev. Wright for 20 years ...
NO OBAMA 08
Posted by: OBAMA is a Political FRAUD | Aug 26, 2008 12:14:22 AM
Tom, it's okay, you go ahead and work your a$$ off, but don't make too much because then the Dems will take it and give it to the person not working as hard as you are but wants the same things you have.
Don't you get it, rich people, for all that they are hated, provide the jobs. If they are taxed out of the
a$$ guess who pays. The employees! To counter the exorbitant taxes they pay, they give less raises, provide less or no insurance benefits, etc. to the workers. So in essence it is the working people who pay.
Posted by: S Adams | Aug 26, 2008 12:21:50 AM
SOME YOU LOW LIFES ARE AS STRUNG OUT ON HATE AS THOSE HATEFILLED-HATEFUL, HATE MONGERS ON METH...
AN THATS WORSE THAN THOSE METH JUNKIES WITH HATE ON THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS.
MICHELLE OBAMA IS RIGHT...THIS IS A VERY HATEFUL NATION.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED !!
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ANYWAY..........
ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND FORMER PRESIDENTS WE'RE MEMBERS OF (CFR) ...
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
DAVID ROCKEFELLER: HE RUNS THIS COUNTY AND BOTH PARTIES AND ITS CURRENCY (THE FED.)
YOU LIVE IN A SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT, YOU DO YOU THINK YOU'RE FOOLING...SURELY, ONLY YOURSELVES !!!
FOUNDED BY DAVID ROCKEFELLER
DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS AN UNAPOLOGETIC, UNASHAMED SOCIALIST AND BIG TIME CAPITALIST.
SO YOU (SOCIALIST FEAR MONGERS) SHOULD STOP WITH THE FEAR MONGERING AND SOLELY,TRYING TO TAG & LABEL OBAMA AS A "SOCIALIST"
BECAUSE JOHN MCCAIN, RONALD W. REAGAN, BOTH GEORGE H.W. BUSH & SON GEORGE W. BUSH JR. BILL AN HILLARY CLINTON ARE ALSO (CFR MEMBERS) AS WELL AS OTHER KNOWN PRESIDENT.
ITS A (MONOPOLY) ITS CALLED BEING SMART, BY CONTROLING BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES, WHATEVER THE POLITICAL PERSAUSION, YOUR AGENDA IS FOLLOWED AND ADHERED TO.
DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS (SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST-ELITIST-INTELLECTUALIST)
SO ARE ALL CFR MEMBERS AND YOU LIVE IN A SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST WORLD...ANYWAY
MOST OF THE WORLD IS SOCIALIST (W, EUROPE ) ARE SOCIALIST-CAPITALIST. THEY ARE NOT COMPLAINING, AT ALL, ARE THEY ?
NOTE: JOHN MCCAIN IS A CFR MEMBER AND HIS SOON TO BE RUNNIN MATE "MORMON" MITT ROMNEY AN ALSO BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN...
YOUR PRES. AND VICE PRES. WILL BE CFR MEMBERS, NO MATTER WHAT...NO MATTER WHAT !!
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NOW GO AHEAD AND CALL ...
"SEMI-SENILE" JOHN MCCAIN & "MORMON" MITT ROMNEY (SOCIALIST)
YOU LOW LIFES !!!!
Posted by: 0. | Aug 26, 2008 12:36:01 AM
s adams--- you just dont get it if they payed more wages they woul dhave more to write off on there taxes thsu not haveing to pay more taxes. but they would rather have the government give them huge tax break like they have for years now why the wages have not even come close to keeping up with inflation.why with all these great tax cuts they ahve had do josb keep vanishing? stop lying we might be working class but we are not stupid we knwo what is up.
Posted by: tom | Aug 26, 2008 12:37:18 AM
O, What the hell are you ranting about??
Posted by: S Adams | Aug 26, 2008 12:41:59 AM
This is probably why Hillary does not want to be his vice president. Can you imagine? If Obama caught a cold in the next 4 years, his supporters would try to blame it on her. And about Obama's brother....it's a funny thing, he wants to shove Socialism up our a$$es but I haven't heard of him sharing his millions with his brother that lives in the hut. And the only racist comments I've heard have come from Obama. He keeps telling us all of the racist things the Republicans will tell us, but I haven't actually heard it from them yet. Maybe he heard it while visiting one of those extra seven states.
Posted by: Melanie | Aug 26, 2008 12:58:00 AM
There seem to be a few posters here tonight who are quite sympathetic to the demented meth heads mentioned in this article. Their convention is next week in St. Paul.
Posted by: JP | Aug 26, 2008 1:26:35 AM
What lunkheads these guys are. The first 6 weeks of an Obama presidency would do more for their cause than 100 years of KKK efforts.
Posted by: pumpernickle | Aug 26, 2008 1:58:27 AM
SOME YOU LOW LIFES HERE AT ABC NEWS, ARE AS STRUNG OUT ON HATE AS THOSE HATEFILLED-HATEFUL, HATE MONGERS ON METH...
AN THATS JUST AS WORSE AS THOSE CAUGHT DEAD TO RIGHTS, METH JUNKIES WITH HATE ON THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS.
ALL YOU WHO HATE OBAMA, REALLY HATE HIM BASED ON HIS RACE AND NOTHING MORE..
SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE JUST AS GUILTY AS THOSE CAUGHT RED HANDED LOW LIFES.
JUST AS THAT OTHER FLORIDA MAD MAN, WHO WANTED TO KILL OBAMA, A FEW WEEKS AGO....
I'M SURE, IF BARACK WAS WHITE, THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM, BUT HE'S BI-RACIAL AND YOU HATE MONGERS, WILL NEVER SEE HIS WHITE SIDE, TO YOU RACIST, HE'S ONLY BLACK...
AN THATS A DAMN TRAGEDY, A CRYING DAMN SHAME AND SOME OF YOU, CALL YOURSELVES CHRISTIANS...
GOOD PEOPLE, GOD FEARING, UNBIAS PEOPLE...
BORDERLINE-BULL-SPIT !!!
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MICHELLE OBAMA WAS RIGHT...
THIS IS A VERY HATEFUL NATION, IF YOU ARE A BLACK AMERICAN.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED !!
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Posted by: o. | Aug 26, 2008 2:40:03 AM
Pumpernickle...
THE LAST 7 1/2 YEARS UNDER 2 WHITE MALES, HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS COUNTRY A GREAT SERVICE AND HAS PROVEN, HOW SUPERIOR THEY ARE ON NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CRISIS,ISSUES AND POLICIES !!!
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THEY SURE AS HELL, BROUGHT THIS NATION TO GREAT HEIGHTS OF PROSPERITY AND WORLD WIDE RESPECTABILITY...HUH
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BUSH AND CHENEY HAVE PROVEN THEIR WORTH, VIA WARS AND A GREAT NUMBER OF DEATHS !!!
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VERY COMPETENT COMMANDER IN CHEIF...
IF THIS WERE OBAMA, HE WOULD BE IMPEACHED & PROSECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES !!!
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YOU HAD NO WORRIES ABOUT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT..NOO PROBLEMS AT ALL !!!
Posted by: o. | Aug 26, 2008 2:49:54 AM
Does this mean that Louis Farrakhan will send his Nation of Islam goon squad over to protect his long time friend Barack?
Posted by: Jim S | Aug 26, 2008 3:14:10 AM
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