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Armed Ohio man held after arrest as Obama leaves Asheville


MEG KINNARD
The Associated Press
Published: Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:52 a.m.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? An armed man spotted at a North Carolina airport parking lot just after Air Force One departed and who said he wanted to see the president was being held at the request of federal authorities, a judge said Monday.

Man arrested with gun

 In this police mug shot provided by the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, April 25, 2010, Joseph Sean McVey is shown. McVey has been charged after authorities spotted him with a gun in a North Carolina airport parking lot as Air Force One was departing Sunday afternoon.

Authorities arrested Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon at the Asheville Regional Airport and charged him with going armed in terror of the public, a misdemeanor.
McVey, wearing a white jail jumpsuit, appeared calm and spoke in a steady voice via a video conference Monday morning while district Judge Patricia Young said federal authorities wanted him kept in custody even if he posts bail.
McVey was being held under a $100,000 secured bond for the misdemeanor charge and faces up to 120 days in jail if convicted, the judge said. She told him an attorney had agreed to represent him.
"I'd like to take advantage of the gentleman that you were notifying me about," he responded.
Young set his next court date for June 10.
McVey told an officer in the airport parking lot he wanted to see the president. He had a car equipped with police gear, including a siren and flashing lights, though he did not work in law enforcement, authorities said.
Security was heightened at the airport Sunday because President Barack Obama was leaving after spending the weekend vacationing in Asheville.
At about 2 p.m., airport police saw McVey get out of a maroon car with Ohio plates and that he had a sidearm, airport police Capt. Kevan Smith said. Both airport police and the Secret Service questioned him and he was taken into custody. The suspect was nowhere near the president's plane, which had just departed, and was in a rental car return lot that is open to the public, Smith said.
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Sure it wasn't just his magic wand???

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jimotis4heisman;1696592; said:
the whole thing is odd and interesting in a real weird way.

on the one side he was legally permitted to possess the firearm with his ohio ccw. the guys allegedly a volunteer first responder.
Armed Ohio man is harmless, friends say | The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio CCW Reciprocity Map


there is legal, and then there is stupid. those two things dont always coincide...
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My first thought when I heard this was that ccw wouldn't extend to airport (or other high security location) grounds. A quick web search seems to confirm that permitted carriers are cool up to the TSA checkpoint, in most cases. That seems kind of crazy to me. I realize you can't ban firearms from airport property for a variety of reasons, but stipulating that they must be unloaded, and in an approved case, would seem reasonable.

I don't think this guy had any intention of harming, or even threatening, the President. I agree that it just seems strange, but mostly harmless. There's enough in the Dispatch article to suggest he may be a little off, but the chain of events just seems so random. You'd think it would be common sense to take the piece off your person if you know you are going to be in the immediate vicinity of the POTUS. Not to mention, if you're being questioned for doing so, don't say, "I wanted to see the President".

Good to see you back, jo. Been on vacation?
 
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agreed. however im not familiar with the airport, he was allegedly in the rental car return lot. ive been to big airports where that is a looong way away and ive been to airports were that is within walking distance. hard to say. sometimes things that seem really odd, like range numbers, are not that odd. it all is in context. the days of laughing about hundreds of oregonians throwing rocks at the presidential motorcade are gone. it is odd that the feds said to release him, then held him?

as i said before, legal and stupid.




not really on "vacation." working on some projects, lots of travel and what not. been out west a lot, spent some time east and n nj. things are odd to say the least at this point. lots of O&G stuff, some timber and somehow stumbled upon an old friends situation along the way. trying to make my life and his families stuff work out the best.
 
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