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UPDATES: Man Arrested In Trump Hotel With Guns, Ammo. Police: ‘Averted A Potential Disaster’

John Bickley

Early Wednesday morning, D.C. Police and Secret Service agents arrested a man at Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. who was “behaving suspiciously” and illegally had in his possession an assault rifle, handgun and 90 rounds of ammunition. In a press conference Wednesday, the D.C. Police chief said authorities had “averted a potential disaster in our nation’s capital.”

NBC Washington reports that Bryan Moles, 43, of Edinboro Pennsylvania, was arrested inside Trump International Hotel just after 1 a.m. Wednesday after both local police and Secret Service had received a tip that Moles was “a potential threat against Secret Service protectees.”

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