The Department of Justice has accused two people of selling rifles to Ryan Ruth, who was accused of trying to kill President Trump at his Florida Golf Club last year.
After two defendants-Tina Brown Cooper and Ronnie J Oxyndine-Ne were accused in March and arrested in April, the federal court convicted gun-related allegations. Cooper on Monday convicted firearms, and Oxyndine convicted last month for holding an unregistered gun, when the police found a small bar-barrel shotgun in their storage building.
In court Papers Participated in both cases as part of the plea agreement, the Department of Justice said that both of them sold a Chinese-made SKS rifle to Routh in August, Cooper allegedly served as a middleman in sales between Routh and Oxyndine. Law enforcement stated that Cooper worked for oxendine at a roof company in Greensboro, Northern Carolina.
Federal prosecutors alleged that Cooper, Routh and Oxyndine met at the headquarters of the roof company, where Ruth paid $ 100 to Cooper to help SKS rifle to help in arranging $ 350 cash and sale.
About six weeks later, Routh was Allegedly found Along with an SKS-style rifle outside the Golf Club of Shri Trump in West Palm Beach-prosecutors did not specify if it was allegedly sold as an oxyndine and cooper.
Neither the defendants did not tell the law enforcement that they had any advance knowledge of the alleged plans of Routh.
Routh has been accused of attempting to kill a presidential candidate and an illegal gun -occupied, prosecutors said they were not allowed to own a firearm due to the 2002 arms sentence.
Cooper allegedly told the FBI that Routh asked for help in buying a gun “to use his son as security”, and said he could not buy a gun in his real name due to his criminal punishment.
In a September interview with FBI agents, Oxyndine reportedly stated that he met Routh in the 1990s when both of them had ownership of roof companies, saying that they were not friends. Cooper said she was a former Ruth employee in her roof company in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The court filing from the prosecutors says that Cooper told “inconsistent stories” and admitted to the FBI that he removed the files from his phone to avoid any partnership with “attempted murder.” Oxyndine too Allegedly The FBI told that after Ruth’s attempt to murder, Cooper asked him to deny any knowledge and avoid cooperating with the authorities.
One File a court In an FBI interview, Cooper says “former President Donald J. lied to agents for fear of criminal results to involve the attempt to murder.”
“In addition, Cooper admitted that she was ‘guilty’ to assist Ruth, which she knew that she was a prohibited person, in receiving a gun, called” filing.
Ruth is not named among the initial criminal prosecution against Oxyndine and Cooper.
CBS news has reached the lawyers for Routh, Oxyndine and Cooper for the news comments.
The allegations were earlier reported by the Orthodox site headline USA.
Charges against Cooper and Oxyndine provide new details on the Routh, on which the Pennsylvania campaign rally tried to kill Mr. Trump two months after shooting the then presidential candidate.
Routh has requested not to be guilty for the allegations, and is ready to go for a test in September.
On Tuesday, Routh went to fire his public guards in a criminal case against him.
