“According to our information at this very early stage of the investigation, it appears that these individuals were operating under the belief that ‘fake ballots’ were being considered at the convention center – a completely unsubstantiated claim – and that recognition could be their focus on Philadelphia. “Rohe CNN. Said in a statement emailed to.
Text messages said the men were concerned about the vote count at the convention center, prosecutors said.
Antonio Lamotta, 1, and Joshua Macacias, 21, of Joshua, Chesapeake, Virginia, were arrested Thursday night on suspicion of carrying a handgun without permission outside the center in Pennsylvania, officials said.
Philadelphia police said they received a tip-off Thursday night that people with weapons were heading to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in a silver Hummer truck.
Officers found a silver Hummer parked a block from the center and knocked him unconscious at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, seven minutes before the men who had identified the Hummer as theirs, police said.
Officials told a news conference Friday that the two men were carrying handguns and police found an AR-type rifle in a Hummer. About 160 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the weapons and the vehicle, officials said.
Lamotta and Makius were charged with possession of a firearm without a license and possession of a firearm on a public street or public property, Krasner said.
This worrying phenomenon of additional charges is still very much under investigation, Krasner said.
Lamotta and Makais were arrested Friday night and the judge was granted bail of 7 750,000 each, Kreisner’s spokeswoman Jane Roh said.
It was not immediately clear whether the men had a legal representation. CNN has asked Philadelphia Public Defenders Office Fees and Lamotta’s relatives for comment.
A woman traveling with the men has not been arrested, Krasner said.
The suspect said he needed leave to go to Philadelphia, the employer says.
Lamotta told his work inspector a few days ago that he needed leave for “assignment” in Philadelphia, according to the company’s CEO, who offered him the job.
Holmમોnon told CNN that Lamotta told his supervisor this week that he needed to take leave for an “assignment” in Philadelphia that was not assigned by the company.
Hollimon said he did not know why Lamotta was in Philadelphia and he insisted he believed he was “a good person.”
“He’s a very dedicated person. I’ve never had an issue with him,” Hollimon told CNN. “It’s no threat.”
Lamotta’s website, which has since been taken down, described it as “emergency response, security, fugitive recovery agent, bodyguard, security contractor”.
The website, which includes his date of birth and hometown, both matched information shared by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office fees.
The website features ing bhel pictures next to a silver Hummer on them. It also details his work experience in Nationwide Investigation and Security as well as documents related to military discharge.
The website details other work experience, including the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, where he lives.
Hemot Covey, a spokeswoman for Chemopic, told CNN that Lamota was a technology maintenance facility in the city from August 2014 to May 2019. Cover said he could not provide details about why Lamota left the job.
Correction: In the previous version of this story, Antonio Lamotta and Joshua Mac Kias misrepresented the intended purpose of why they came to the Philadelphia Convention Center armed with guns. According to Jane Roh, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, they may have assumed that fake ballots were being counted. Headline and story are improved.
CNN’s Patrick Cornell, Julian Cummings, Laura Lee, Mark Morales, Ganesh Setti and JS Satto contributed to this report.
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