California man who was arrested<\/a> at Donald Trump\u2019s Los Angeles-area golf course while pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for the US president\u2019s visit has been charged with several felonies, including the possession of a large-capacity magazine as well as a stash of illegal weapons found in his car and home.<\/p>\nJeanine John Taele, 38, was arrested on Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, two days before the president was set to visit the town for a Republican National Committee dinner.<\/p>\n
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Taele pleaded not guilty to all the charges on Monday, with bail set at $250,000, though he had already appeared in court on a state weapons and second-degree robbery charge for an unrelated, earlier incident.<\/p>\n
He was due in court on Wednesday on a federal weapons charge, but the hearing was cancelled. According to a spokesperson from the US attorney\u2019s office, Taele is being held at a downtown LA jail and is not yet in federal custody.<\/p>\n
Taele was first seen on the president\u2019s property on Friday, walking throughout the course wearing an earpiece and taking photos and videos of federal agents\u2019 activities as they conducted a security assessment, according to a federal criminal complaint filed with the California Central District Court.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said a search of his pick-up truck in the club car park turned up a loaded 9mm pistol, binoculars, and a badge that read \u201csecurity protection agent\u201d, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
On Monday, law enforcement searched his home in the nearby city of Downey and found an unregistered short-barreled rifle and other firearms, magazines, ammunition, body armour, and notebooks with \u201cconcerning statements\u201d, federal authorities said. No details about the statements were released.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old was a corporal in the US Marines. He was deployed to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2010, and worked as a warehouse clerk, according to the US Marine Corps. He earned numerous commendations, including an award for good conduct during his service from 2008 to 2016.<\/p>\n
In brief remarks about Taele\u2019s arrest to Fox News on Tuesday, Trump said that \u201conly consequential presidents\u201d are targeted and that he was \u201cdefinitely consequential\u201d, which brought him \u201ca little solace\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Marine denies charges after arrest at Los Angeles golf course, with weapons, badge and \u2018concerning\u2019 notebooks found. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[882,1259,44,54,7288],"class_list":["post-46956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956","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=46956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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