A man arrested with guns near former president Barack Obama’s house in Washington had recorded himself threatening House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin and a federal facility housing a nuclear research reactor, prosecutors said Wednesday.
, 37, pending trial, saying that the QAnon conspiracy theorist was armed, dangerous and in the grip of delusional thinking but that he had successfully eluded law enforcement for nearly a day before his arrest June 29 in a wooded area near Obama’s home in Washington’s exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.
Authorities searched for Taranto before June 28, but he was living in his van, and his lack of a fixed address frustrated efforts to find him, prosecutors said. Law enforcement “escalated efforts to locate Taranto and increased resources to assist in the search” after his threats but were unsuccessful before he turned up near Obama’s residence.Assistant Federal Public Defender Katie Guevara is expected to respond to the government’s claims at a 3 p.m. hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge G.
Taranto allegedly recorded himself walking in the neighborhood saying he was looking for “entrance points” and “tunnels underneath their houses,” according to prosecutors. He also said he had “control” of the block and repeatedly stated that he was trying to get a “shot” and a “good angle on a shot,” prosecutors claimed.
Taranto claimed he had been living in his van and participating with demonstrators supporting Jan. 6 defendants outside the D.C. jail.
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