Ohio Man with Gun Arrensted At Airport As Obama Leaves; Wanted To See the President

A 23-year-old Ohio man carrying a handgun was arrested near the runway as President Obama was leaving Asheville, NC. Joseph Sean McVey pulled his car by the gate and was listening to a police scanner, just as Air Force One was taxiing,

McVey has been charged with going armed to the terror of the public, a misdemeanor offense. He is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Center on $100,000 secured bond.

He did not get near the president.



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McVey got out of the car and started talking on a handheld radio attached to a remote earpiece and the officer noticed he was wearing a sidearm.

The officer and Secret Service agents asked for McVey’s identification and when they ran his driver’s license number through a computer it did not come back as valid, according to the case summary.

When the officer asked what he was doing, McVey stated “he heard the president was in town. He stated he wanted to see the president,” according to a case summary.


http://www.alan.com/

Interesting name. These lunatics are on the loose.

of teabagger nuts in Ohio!

Had to what -- cross the Ohio River and drive through several mountains to get to Asheville? That's a pretty good haul.

And he arrives armed, asking to see the President of the United States.

Jesus.

is just full of nutcases right now. My local newspaper is the worst I have ever seen and they hold rallies all the time in front of the courthouse.

http://www.tribtoday.com/
This has be one of the most hateful rightwing newspapers ever for a local paper.

McVey was absolutely unknown to most Americans until Obama went to Asheville, and now his pus is on every blog in the country.

The view out the window is getting kinda scary, isn't it.

This is how bad it is where I live. I was putting Tim Ryan Signs in along S. RT.5 when a guy stoped right behind me blowing his horn and giving me the finger.
I won't be putting in anymore signs alone.

Ohio is full of Rightwing nuts...........period!

and people could value those good things.

I thought Howard Metzenbaum was the bee's knees. I really miss him. I think the Senate could sure use him 'long about now.

But being from NE Ohio I will not disagree. Lots of poverty and little information in the media as to where and why the jobs are going away makes for an angry brew.

I feel like there are so many teabagger nuts around here.

I know one cat who FReeps like he belongs...but living in Virginia I try to tell him that the other kids in his sandbox think he's a "cultist".

It's all about abortion for that single issue batchelor with no romantic prospects...

I feel like there are so many teabagger nuts around here.

What I don't understand is why the Youngstown/Warren area is so Republican? You would think with the terrible economy and all the steel and auto jobs that area has lost.. they would be solid DEMS?

I guess it goes back to the idea that Repukes will always vote against their own best interest ..as long as they are convinced that the powers that be will allow some crumbs fall off the table for them to consume.

Did the Cheeto stains get in the way of finger-printing?

His car was equipped with clear LED law enforcement-style strobe lights in the front and rear dash, Smith said. The car also had a mounted digital camera in the front window, four large antennas on the trunk lid, and under the steering wheel was a working siren box. Smith said McVey was not in law enforcement.

When McVey got out of the car, he was listening to a handheld scanner and radio that had a remote earpiece, Smith said. Police said he was monitoring local agencies and had formulas for rifle scopes on a note in his cup holder. Police did not immediately elaborate on what the formulas might mean and Smith was not available to comment late Sunday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/25/joseph-mcvey-armed-man-ar_n_551295.html

What kind of fantasy trip was this guy on?

And who among us doesn't keep rifle scopes in our auto cup holders?

of these nutjobs.

puts this story in as its headline.

Unsettling times.

A variety of social networking and personal websites also show that Joseph Sean McVey is a HAM radio enthusiast.

On policelink.monster.com, McVey wrote that his hobbies include "shooting, fishing, hunting, piano, trumpet (and) voice."

McVey, a resident of Coshocton, Ohio, graduated from West Liberty University in July 2009, according to a website he created listing himself as a sound engineer. The school has about 2,600 students and is located about an hour southwest of Pittsburgh.

He majored in music technology, according to his Myspace profile, which also lists him as a HAM radio operator with the call sign K8JSM. According to a post by McVey on qrz.com, a HAM radio-oriented website, he goes by his middle name, Sean.

On Sunday, an Asheville airport police officer noticed large antennas on McVey's vehicle as he sat near an airport runway.

"Generally my antennas sit at the bottom of the rear windshield, on the front lip of my trunk, and this provides for some directionality towards the front of the vehicle," McVey wrote on qrz.com. "This enables me to help increase signal strength when necessary."

McVey's sites indicate he may be a member of SKYWARN, a National Weather Service program that calls on citizens to report severe weather.

On Friday, he posted two "tweets" from Limestone, N.C., on his Twitter account. Limestone is a small town about 25 minutes south of Asheville.

McVey posted three tweets additional tweets before he was arrested, the last, which he posted on Saturday, citing a CNN warning of tornado watches in multiple states.

His Xanga profile page, last updated in 2006, lists his birthday as April 16, 1987.

In 2007, McVey posted a blog on his Myspace profile that said he got a job working "as IntelliTarget Marketing. (Verifying addresses on magazine subscriptions and, soon, political 'advertising' for the One Million Republicans, a new Republican group postered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay)."

Other blogs describe girl troubles and his frustrations surrounding his efforts to become a good pianist. He hasn't posted a new blog since 2008.

His Facebook page, which the Citizen-Times had limited access to, lists him as a fan of Asheville and, separately, as a fan of downtown Asheville.

On his YouTube account, McVey has favorited more than 100 videos, including multiple law enforcement-related videos and one that allegedly shows U.S. soldiers accidentally killing civilians in Iraq.

None of the sites examined by the Citizen-Times included any mention of President Barack Obama.

Tom DeLay."

Good lord.

You are all over this story, samplegirl.

Rush? Beck? Free Republic?

At least that's been my experience. I've known maybe half-a-dozen of these guys over the years--mostly as co-workers--and they all were eerily alike. Obsessed with the accouterments of law enforcement and security; a couple were also locksmiths; all were well-armed, authoritarian and very conservative. From the outside looking in it appeared as if the whole HAM radio thing was more of an OCD lifestyle than a hobby. They were aways attached to some kind of communication device or never more than an arm's length away from their "gear" even at work.

Obviously that doesn't describe every amateur radio hobbyist, but again, that was may experience.

lived behind me growing up. Never came outside much. Never joined any of us neighbor kids in outside activities.
Amazing though he grew up and became a successful Nasa Astronaut. I always figured he's become some kind of terrorist.

:+

If this were some kind of security probe, and if it was coordinated with some of his HAM contacts, I don't suppose he'd be stupid enough to keep a log of who they were, would he?

n.t.