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Review of Obama assassination plot finds men do not pose threat

By Jacob Carpenter (Last updated: 08/26/08 11:32pm)

Denver — Three men who are being investigated for possibly planning an assassination attempt against Sen. Barack Obama will not immediately face charges because there is “insufficient evidence” to indicate a plot, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

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U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said three men who were under the influence of methamphetamines made racial slurs against Obama and were arrested in the Denver area. Each was arrested Sunday morning for unrelated charges.

It was discovered that each might have been involved in possible plans for assassinating the Ilinois senator.

During a routine traffic stop, police stopped a car driven by one of the suspects that contained two rifles — one with a scope attached — along with body armor, ammunition, wigs and a mobile methamphetamine lab in his car.

Police outside Denver, host site of the Democratic National Convention, arrested the driver, Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, for methamphetamine possession, according to an affidavit.

Gartrell told police the car belonged to his cousin, Shawn Adolf, 33, the affidavit stated.

Police went to the hotel where he was reportedly staying, but instead found Nathan Dwain Johnson, 32, who was arrested for unlawfully possessing a firearm and methamphetamine. Johnson told officers of another hotel where Adolf was staying, the affidavit stated.

When police attempted to contact Adolf at the hotel, he jumped from his sixth-story room and was taken into medical care. Police found 35 grams of methamphetamine in the hotel room, the affidavit stated.

After the three arrests, an unnamed female told police all three were under the influence of methamphetamine Saturday night and Sunday morning while making racial slurs against Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Johnson told police Adolf had previously threatened to kill Obama on his inauguration with a rifle and scope.

An investigation into the incident will continue, Eid said.

Originally Published: 08/26/08 11:11pm




Commentary:

Sherri

08/27/08 12:22am

This is just an example of history repeating itself. We’ve finally gotten the chance to experience an all time first, which looks like it will be short-lived because we still have monsters (not people) out here who still wish to do bodily harm to individuals outside of their race. When are people going to wake up and realize that change is near and it’s for the better. How can anyone in their right mind say that these gentlemen don’t pose a threat when everything in their possession states otherwise.

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JR

08/27/08 2:50pm

Get the chip off your shoulder. They are in fact useless meth-heads who should do the time for their drug crime. What about all the ‘African-Americans’ who are crack heads and weed addicts who do the same thing? When they’re released from jail should the rest of the community be outraged?

Also, why is it that your ‘African-American’ community can’t just be happy with being part of the American community?

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irrehs

08/27/08 4:08pm

Sherri – Get over yourself and stop the victims BS! You sound just like Michelle (Angela Davis) Obama who played June Cleaver for a night with her ridiculous log cabin “speech” at the Democrat National Ascension.
What if every wronged group played your stupid victim game? we’d never get anywhere. Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Welsh-Americans, Arab-Americans, German-Americans, American Indians and countless others were brutalized by society much more recently than your 150 year-old story of slavery, yet today they call themselves simply Americans. Who is giving them handouts? You hate us because we bought the slaves – who SOLD the slaves? It certainly wasn’t white folks.

stop obama

08/27/08 4:15pm

This clown will stoop to anything to play the race card, garner sympathy, play the victim. Fuggetaboutit Barak Hussein Obama, you sir are no JFK, & he was in office before someone whacked him. Maybe we should just throw out all the rules and simply annoint you as Messiah because you “deserve” it. Or we could get the left-wing environmental whackos to declare you an endangered species. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Sherri

08/27/08 10:44pm

This comment is for all who responded to what I had to say, you all sound like a bunch of bigoted and racist communists. Did you forget that this country was built on the back of African American people. Let’s not talk about the different races and playing the race game, because every last one of you or your ancestors stole a piece of someone else’s history to make it their own. Take a look at all the broadcast stations and the content being viewed on these stations and you tell me what color do YOU see.

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KB

08/27/08 11:22pm

‘It was discovered that each might have been involved in possible plans for assassinating the Ilinois senator.’ It is spelled Illinois. I know that and I don’t even live there!

havaheart?

08/27/08 11:45pm

What is it with people in today’s society? Why is it that we have time to go back and fourth about who is right and who is wrong? Is that labeled acceptable in today’s America? I am well aware that this is the land of the free, home of the brave, but let’s be brave and faces the realities of what is going on at home? What about the fact that your husband is a struggling alcoholic, you have a gambling addiction, your son is on drugs, your daughter is a prostitute, yet u find the time to go back and fourth and argue a point that is null and void.

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havaheart?

08/27/08 11:52pm

And I do stand corrected in one occurrance I happened to get a little heated in blogging and I missplelled BLACK…but i’m Sure You as in the Haters knew what I meant and The BELIEVERS wrote it off as an honest mistake

haveaheart?

08/28/08 9:11am

You should all read “The Audacity of Hope” … subtitled “The Arrogance of Entitlement”, by Barak Hussein Obama

America the Stupid

08/31/08 9:47am

How ignorant do people look when a man cant even have a different name without being made fun of. Calling him Barak Hussein Obama is plain simple one hundred percent ignorant. I recommend college young fella. And to aswer your question going around in your head no I am not black. I am a white woman who is damn embarssed right now.



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