Federal agents on Wednesday morning hauled more than 120 firearms, including “machine guns,” out of the Ahwatukee Foothills home of a man suspected of shooting at a campaign office for the Democratic Party three times and posting bags of white powder labeled as poison near political signs.

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night near his Ahwatukee Foothills home by Tempe police who, according to court documents, used surveillance footage to find the suspect.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 hours ago

    It gets the views up. Same with ‘including “machine guns”’ even tho there is no real evidence of that, just:

    A reporter overheard mention of handguns being found in a master bathroom safe and the words “machine gun” and "silencers.”

    “overheard mention” Top notch journalism.

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      8 hours ago

      To be fair, if the police aren’t providing additional info directly yet, what other reporting do you expect?

      Not that what the police say is necessarily the truth about a situation either, anything they claim should be taken with at least a pinch of salt nowadays if not a whole salt lick.