Jeffrey Michael Kelly, the suspect arrested in reference to the capturing of Kamala Harris‘ marketing campaign workplace in Arizona, could have been planning a “mass casualty” occasion … this based on prosecutor Neha Bhatia.
The Maricopa County prosecutor made the assertion in courtroom Wednesday, claiming federal brokers instructed her greater than 120 weapons and 250,000 rounds of ammunition had been found in Kelly’s residence after his arrest.
She mentioned scopes, physique armor and silencers had been additionally found within the residence by authorities in the course of the search … together with a machine gun in his automobile.
Kelly has additionally been accused of hanging luggage of white powder from political indicators lined with razor blades in Ahwatukee … a neighborhood south of Phoenix.
Primarily based on the objects recovered within the seizure, Bhatia famous brokers suspect Kelly “was making ready to commit an act of mass casualty.”
In response to police, Kelly first fired BB pellets on the marketing campaign workplace — which additionally serves as Tempe’s Democratic Nationwide Committee workplace. He then allegedly fired gunshots on the entrance door and window of the workplace.
Bhatia says the shootings passed off within the early hours of Sept. 16, Sept. 23, and Oct. 6, and claims Kelly “had weapons in step with the weapons that had been used” within the shootings.
Fortunately, nobody was contained in the workplace constructing in the course of the shootings … however a Tempe Police Division spokesperson famous the repeated incidents raised security issues for the staffers inside.
Kelly — who had beforehand been arrested in 2022 for allegedly stealing marketing campaign indicators — has been charged with a number of felonies, together with committing an act of terrorism, illegal discharge of a firearm, and capturing at a non-residential construction. He is additionally been charged with misdemeanor felony injury.
The choose has set Kelly’s bail at $500K and ordered him held on home arrest within the occasion he is in a position to elevate the bail cash and be launched from jail.
