[jonKranked]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/25/AR2010042503216.html

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- An armed man spotted at a North Carolina airport parking lot just after Air Force One departed Sunday told an officer he wanted to see the president and had a car equipped with police gear, including a siren and flashing lights, authorities said.

Joseph Sean McVey, 23, of Coshocton, Ohio, is charged with going armed in terror of the public, a misdemeanor, said Asheville Regional Airport Police Capt. Kevan Smith.

At about 2 p.m., airport police saw McVey get out of a maroon car with Ohio plates and that he had a sidearm, Smith said. Both airport police and the Secret Service questioned him and he was taken into custody. The suspect was nowhere near the president's plane, which had just departed, and was in a rental car return lot that is open to the public, Smith said.

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.

 

[MMike]

avenging Uncle Tim?

 

[drkenan]

He just wants to become a cop so bad that he was practicing. Nothing wrong with trying to get your foot in the door by taking it upon yourself to protect the president.

 

[Pesqueeb]

avenging Uncle Tim?

Different spelling, but thats exactly what I thought also,

charged with going armed in terror of the public, a misdemeanor

How is something like that only a misdemeanor?

 

[MMike]

Different spelling, but thats exactly what I thought also,

How is something like that only a misdemeanor?

Changing the spelling was part of the charade, like tricking out the car with cop lights.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Most of the time I want to be armed *because* I'm IN terror of the public....

 

[eaterofdog]

How is something like that only a misdemeanor?

He's white?

 

[reflux]

I'm a touch surprised he didn't arrive wearing a white tuxedo and a top hat.

 

[kidwoo]

Bizutch is such a dork.

 

[Jim Mac]

That guy looks he's 12, not 23...total cop imitator who failed the police psych test...

 

[sanjuro]

I heard it on TV, and the pronunciation is exactly like "McVeigh".

 

[the desmondo]

I heard it on TV, and the pronunciation is exactly like "McVeigh".

Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. Very odd.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

He just wants to become a cop so bad that he was practicing. Nothing wrong with trying to get your foot in the door by taking it upon yourself to protect the president.

INS wanna be, hoping for a little citizen's arrest action on our illegal immigrant president.

 

[drkenan]

Some exerts from his Facebook page...