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Driver of Truck with Swastikas Scrawled on It Near DNC Building Is Kept Behind Bars in Felony Weapons CaseA man recently arrested after authorities allegedly found a machete and bayonet-style knife inside a pickup truck with swastikas scrawled on it outside Democratic National Committee headquarters must stay behind bars, a D.C. judge ruled on Tuesday.
U.S. Capitol police arrested California man Donald Craighead, 44, after finding his Dodge Dakota pickup truck near the DNC building around midnight on Monday. The photographs of his vehicle show it covered with neo-Nazi and white supremacist iconography.
This is good police work plain and simple, Chief Tom Manger wrote in a statement on Monday. We applaud the officers keen observation and the teamwork that resulted in this arrest.
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On Tuesday afternoon, D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Lloyd Nolan Jr. granted the governments request to hold Craighead, after rejecting his defense counsels arguments for his release. The judge said that Craigheads record showed a prior assault charge that involved a weapon about a year ago.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/driver-of-truck-with-swastikas-scrawled-on-it-near-dnc-building-is-kept-behind-bars-in-felony-weapons-case/
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Driver of Truck with Swastikas Scrawled on It Near DNC Building Is Kept Behind Bars in Felony Weapon (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 2021
OP
Driver of swastika-adorned truck .. DNC feared someone was trying to 'change his magnetic frequency"
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2021
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Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)1. Dude was not concerned at all about resale value.
He should have been. He's going to need it to feed to his lawyers.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)2. I suppose he was having great fun "ownin' the libs".
Until he found out that the Capitol Police can do a little of their own ownin.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)3. I hope that psychopath
Dies in jail.
That spine looking thing is a cat spine!
Sekhmet destroy this psychopath shit .
Let this evil bastard be hunted and clawed and bit and ripped apart and killed by furious cats much bigger than him forever. Give him no peace and feed his heart to Ammit.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,195 posts)4. Driver of swastika-adorned truck .. DNC feared someone was trying to 'change his magnetic frequency"