{"id":46600,"date":"2026-08-05T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:28:23","slug":"man-carrying-ammunition-monitoring-security-at-trump-golf-course-police-say-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46600\/","title":{"rendered":"Man carrying ammunition \u2018monitoring security\u2019 at Trump golf course, police say \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man carrying ammunition and with a gun in his vehicle was arrested at President Donald Trump\u2019s Los Angeles-area golf course after appearing to monitor security preparations ahead of the US president\u2019s fundraiser there on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said Jeanine John Taele, 38, took photos and video and had a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket.<\/p>\n

A search of his pickup truck in the golf course parking lot turned up a loaded nine mm pistol, binoculars and a badge that read \u201csecurity protection agent\u201d according to the US attorney\u2019s office in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Authorities searched his home in the nearby city of Downey on Monday and found a rifle and other firearms, magazines and ammunition, body armour and notebooks with \u201cconcerning statements\u201d, federal authorities said.<\/p>\n

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No details about the statements were released.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s department announced the arrest as Mr Trump was preparing to arrive for the Republican National Committee dinner on Tuesday at the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes just south of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Taele\u2019s troubling behaviour at the president\u2019s public golf course merely days before the president was expected to arrive raised serious red flags for law enforcement,\u201d Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles office, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no room for error, particularly in light of previous attempts on President Trump\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year a jury found a man guilty of trying to assassinate Mr Trump at the president\u2019s Florida country club.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes (Jae C Hong\/AP) (Jae C. Hong\/AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong) <\/p>\n

And while a candidate in 2024, Mr Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a shooter on a roof at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s event, federal agents conducted a security assessment last Friday at the Trump course near Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

A person later identified as Taele was seen walking throughout the course, wore an earpiece and took photographs and videos of federal agents\u2019 activities, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Taele drove away but then returned to the course on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He approached federal agents and said he was employed by the State Department and was there for a security detail.<\/p>\n

Taele said he had a loaded weapon in his vehicle and was arrested after it was searched, according to federal officials.<\/p>\n

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Taele was charged with several felonies including second-degree robbery, receiving a large-capacity magazine and possession of a short-barrelled rifle or shotgun.<\/p>\n

He was also charged with carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, a misdemeanour.<\/p>\n

He pleaded not guilty to all the charges on Monday and was ordered to stay away from the golf course and not possess weapons.<\/p>\n

His bail was set at 250,000 dollars (\u00a3185,000).<\/p>\n

It was not clear if Taele had a lawyer and family members could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man carrying ammunition and with a gun in his vehicle was arrested at President Donald Trump\u2019s Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1259,44,5052,6157,278],"class_list":["post-46600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-international","tag-los-angeles","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}