Many gun-rights advocates will concede that telling security officials you want to see the president while wearing a sidearm in the parking lot of an airport recently used by Air Force One is, well, not very smart. But is it criminal?
An Ohio man arrested Sunday with a gun near where the president was boarding Air Force One in North Carolina is a harmless, if overzealous, traffic-safety volunteer and ham-radio enthusiast, acquaintances say. Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Athens, is being held on a $100,000 bond in Asheville, N.C., where a judge set his next court date for June 10.
An Ohio sheriff suspended the concealed weapons permit of an armed man who authorities say told them he wanted to see the president in North Carolina, and a report given to The Associated Press said the sheriff’s office recently lectured the man about proper gun handling.
The Ohio man arrested with a loaded handgun at Asheville Regional Airport as President Barack Obama was leaving on Air Force One was an honor student described as a ?good kid? by family and friends. Joseph Sean McVey, 23, made an initial court appearance by video Monday in Buncombe County following an arrest that gained national attention.
An Ohio man arrested Sunday at Asheville Regional Airport with a gun and police scanners around the time President Barack Obama flew out on Air Force One wrote on one Web site that he planned to become a police officer. A variety of social networking and personal Web sites also show that Joseph Sean McVey is a HAM radio enthusiast.
A man arrested outside Asheville Regional Airport as President Obama left town Sunday appeared in court briefly via video today in Buncombe County District Court. Police charged Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, with going armed to the terror of the public, a misdemeanor offense. McVey is being held on $100,000 secured bond and there is a federal hold on his detainment.
The Secret Service does not believe there was a threat to President Obama from an armed man arrested at an airport just after Air Force One left for Washington. Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, sparked alarm when he was collared Sunday at the airport in Asheville, N.C. McVey, who was wearing a pistol, was observed in a public lot in a car with Ohio plates that had radio antennas, lights and sirens like a police cruiser.
The Ohio man arrested with a loaded handgun at Asheville Regional Airport as President Barack Obama was leaving on Air Force One was released from jail this afternoon. Joseph Sean McVey, 23, used a bondsman to post $100,000 bond at the Buncombe County Detention Center, a jailer said. He was released from custody about 4 p.m. Police arrested McVey at the airport Sunday and charged him with going armed to the terror of the public, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of 120 days. He has a June 10 court date.
While the technology of monitoring severe weather has improved over the years, one of the basic tools of the meteorologist remains the same. ?Weather spotters are very important,? Harlyn Wetzel, lead meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Bismarck. ?The satellites and the radar all get better but there is no tool like the human eye.?
Radio hams at the Caister Lifeboat visitor centre managed to contact more than 130 other radio amateurs in 29 different countries when they took part in the annual International Marconi Day to mark the inventor’s birthday.
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