A Nevada man who was arrested over the weekend with guns at a security checkpoint outside a Donald Trump rally in the southern California desert has filed a lawsuit accusing the sheriff of falsely characterizing his arrest as a thwarted assassination attempt for his own personal gain.

I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt,” the Riverside County Sheriff said. Vem Miller has called that claim “ridiculous.”

Vem Miller, a 49-year-old Las Vegas Man, was reportedly arrested on Sunday, October 13, 2024, after he was found with illegal possession of a shotgun and a loaded handgun near Donald Trump’s Coachella