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Suspect Arrested In Republican Party Scare
POSTED: 2:43 pm PDT April 24, 2007
UPDATED: 3:09 pm PDT April 24, 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- By Frank Curreri FOX5Vegas.com
A man has been arrested in connection with an incident earlier this month, when someone pressed a rifle to the face of a Nevada Republican Party official and threatened to "take action" if President George W. Bush vetoed a particular piece of legislation.
Authorities said the suspect, 31-year-old Matthew Hunter Kramer, was captured on Tuesday and that a large cache of weapons were discovered inside of his vehicle -- including three swords, a flare gun with .12-gauge shotgun shells and a .12 gauge shotgun. Las Vegas police did not reveal the particular bill that outraged Kramer, but said he told his victim he would kill everyone at the Republican offices when he returned.
Police said Kramer had went to the Nevada Republican Party offices in southern Nevada on April 3 and originally asked an official there how he could join the party. Kramer somehow coaxed an office manager outside, then stuck a rifle in his face, police said. Authorities arrested Kramer on felony warrants after he left his home Wednesday. He has been booked into Clark County Detention Center, and faces charges for criminal syndicalism, assault with a deadly weapon and aiming a firearm at a human being, police said.