June 21,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Las Vegas NV, A man arrested over the weekend trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an investigator he wanted to kill the candidate, in court papers showed on Monday.
Michael Steven Sandford, who prosecutors described as a 19-year-old British national,who had lived for a time in Hoboken and was currently living out of his car was arrested on Saturday at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas after trying to disarm the officer, according to Las Vegas police.
Sandford told authorities that he had been in the United States for a year and a half,and had lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, after coming to the country. Stanford had overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom and was now living in the USA illegally.
According to court papers filed on Monday in federal court in Nevada, Sandford told a Secret Service agent he had driven to Las Vegas from California with the goal of shooting Trump.