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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man arrested in Denver hotel raid that uncovered 16 long guns and 1,000 rounds of ammo insists he had only just met three others and there was no plot to target MLB's All-Star game - as they're charged with drug offences
2021-07-13
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Authorities raided two rooms at the Maven Hotel in Denver on Friday night after a maid spotted a rifle while cleaning

  • Police uncovered a haul of 16 long guns, body armor and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. They also found drugs and a stash of cash

  • Richard Platt, 42; Gabriel Rodriguez, 48; Ricardo Rodriguez, 44; Kanoelehua Serikawa, 43, were all taken into custody and charged following the raid

  • The three men, who all have criminal histories in Colorado, are each charged with possession of a weapon by a previous offender, as well as other charges

  • Serikawa is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute

  • Police have released few details about the arrests or the ongoing investigation. They have also not disclosed how, if at all, the four suspects knew each other

  • Platt, who works in construction and has a son, has prior convictions for weapons, drugs, theft and assault

  • Ricardo Rodriguez said in jail interview that he had no knowledge of any plans to target the MLB game on Tuesday night
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Maven Hotel: 2021-07-11 Denver maid reports ‘bunch of guns' in hotel room near MLB All-Star Game site; 4 arrests: report
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  "... but what to do the lies mean?"
PIMF!
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-13 19:17  

#7  Even a blind acorn comes across a conspiracy squirrel once in a while. The question is not whether they are lying, but what to the lies mean?
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-13 19:11  

#6  
Posted by: Thoger Bumble3099   2021-07-13 19:00  

#5  Denver has a history of finding an arrest to further a narrative, such as when appeal in Obama was flagging, Denver suddenly found assassins.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-07-13 18:56  

#4  BLM shipment intercept ?

A reasonable supposition. The body armor kinda rules out a day at the range.

The repeated denials that this has anything to do with the baseball game makes me think their ultimate destination was elsewhere and the 'authorities' (top men, all of them!) do not want to spill the beans so they can continue to monitor and incite the plot.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-13 13:21  

#3  The photos at the link don’t look African-American, but there are plenty of non-Blacks involved in BLM, and the race of weapons suppliers wouldn’t matter, I suppose. Antifa has a preference for criminal types as well as the psychologically screwed up...
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-07-13 12:35  

#2  BLM shipment intercept ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-13 07:13  

#1  

I am leaning towards a Drug/Gun Deal gone bad.
Not a Mass HEADLINE GRABBING Baseball game shooting.

But given all the recent over-hyped Anti-Gun coverage and talk of rewriting the 2nd Amendment. This story, will likely turn on some whacked out idiots light-bulb.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-07-13 07:10  

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