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No Charges Over 'Obama Death Plot'
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Aug 27, 2008 03:40am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Police in the US say there is "insufficient evidence" to charge three men who were allegedly planning to assassinate Barack Obama.
The men were arrested in Denver, Colorado, in connection with drugs and weapons offences.
Sky News political editor Adam Boulton, in Denver, said one of the group is reported to have made comments alerting police to a potential assassination plot against the leader of the Democrats.
But speaking at a press conference, police said the men were drug addicts.
They said they were keeping an open mind about the investigation.
US Attorney Troy Eid said: "There is insufficient evidence that there was any kind of a plot or a threat but we'll keep an open mind as we look.
Tharin Gartrell, 28, was arrested following a traffic stop for erratic driving early on Sunday by police in the eastern Denver suburb of Aurora.
In his truck was a bullet-proof vest, two rifles, ammunition, walkie-talkies and drugs.
Police alerted federal authorities, who used additional information to arrest Nathan Johnson, 32, in Aurora.
A third man, Shawn Robert Adolf, 33, was arrested at an Aurora hotel.
Police said that when they knocked on the door of the hotel room, he jumped out of a sixth-floor window, landed on an awning and ran off.
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