Police and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have arrested an Arizona man accused of making expletive-laden death threats against President-elect Donald Trump and his family and attempting to illegally buy a gun.
The suspect, Manuel Tamayo Torres, also posted photos from a Trump rally in Glendale in August, according to court documents. The rally was held less than six weeks after the first assassination attempt on President Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He was convicted of assault causing serious injury in California in 2003 and sentenced to six years in prison. And in July 2023, his ex-wife obtained a restraining order against him in Arizona.
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Donald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024. Manuel Tamayo Torres, the man arrested this week on suspicion of threatening the life of the president-elect, was also at the rally. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Due to both his felony record and an active restraining order, he was prohibited from owning a firearm, but on November 13, 2023 and again on November 15, 2023, he went to a Shooters World store in Phoenix, Arizona. , filled out form 4473 as background. check.
Those attempts were “delayed” and “rejected,” but prosecutors now claim he lied on the documents. He has never been convicted of a felony and allegedly claimed he had no restraining orders from his children or intimate partners.
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A low-resolution image in court documents that purports to show Manuel Tamayo Torres posing with a gun. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California)
Phoenix police later reported that Tamayo-Torres posted on Facebook that “Individual 1,” who has not been named but is listed in court documents as “former president and current president-elect,” had trafficked the children. We discovered that he had posted a series of videos making the claim.
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Tamayo-Torres said the next president would be[W]He was privileged and conspired to murder his daughter and traffick other children. It was not immediately clear from court documents whether he had any children.
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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“You're not white,” Tamayo Torres allegedly rants in a Facebook video posted Thursday. “You won't earn anything, Aryan money, that's all you have. You're a low life scum, I'll spit in your fucking face, Mom, if… If they give me a chance, I will.' I'm going to bury you myself. ”
Police also found another video posted a few days earlier in which Tamayo-Torres is seen carrying “what appears to be a white AR-15 style rifle” with a 30-round magazine. He accused the president-elect of “touching underage children.” And he said the next First Family and the Secret Service would all be sent to prison.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Detectives looked into his Facebook account and found images taken on Aug. 23 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale. Trump held a rally there that night. Other photos were also discovered showing the suspect in possession of firearms, none of which the suspect could legally possess.
Tamayo-Torres was arrested in Southern California and will be extradited to Arizona to face federal charges there.
