Former Texas police officer Mark Aguirre arrested for holding man at gunpoint over baseless election fraud claims, police say – The Washington Post

Former Texas police officer Mark Aguirre arrested for holding man at gunpoint over baseless election fraud claims, police say - The Washington Post 2An air-conditioning repairman was driving his truck through Houston in late October when a black SUV suddenly slammed into his tail. When he got out, the SUV’s driver leaped out and pointed a gun at his head, police said.

When police arrived, the gunman offered an incredible tale: The driver, he said, was the face of a vast election-fraud scheme and had about 750,000 fake ballots stuffed inside his truck.

That story was totally bogus, police say. The man’s truck was full of nothing but A/C parts, and the gunman — Mark Anthony Aguirre, a former Houston Police Department captain — had been paid more than $250,000 by a right-wing organization to pursue far-fetched voter-fraud conspiracy theories.

On Tuesday, Aguirre was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as part of a “bogus voter-fraud conspiracy,” the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

Source: Former Texas police officer Mark Aguirre arrested for holding man at gunpoint over baseless election fraud claims, police say – The Washington Post


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