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Ex-Houston officer accused of assault in bogus voter fraud claim By JUAN A. LOZANO | December 16, 2020 at 8:14 AM EST - Updated December 16 at 8:20 AM
HOUSTON (AP) A former Houston police captain was charged with assault on Tuesday after running a man off the road and holding him at gunpoint in an effort to prove what authorities have called a bogus voter fraud scheme.
Mark Aguirre claimed that an air conditioner repairman was the mastermind of a giant voter fraud scheme. Aguirre said the man’s truck was filled with fraudulent ballots when he ran his SUV into it on Oct. 19, according to authorities.
Former Houston police captain accused of holding repairman at gunpoint in attempt to prove voter fraud
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A former Houston police captain was charged with assault Tuesday after running a man off the road and holding him at gunpoint in an effort to prove what authorities have called a bogus voter fraud scheme. Mark Aguirre claimed an air conditioner repairman was the mastermind of the scheme and said he believed the man s truck was filled with fraudulent ballots when he ran his SUV into it on Oct. 19, according to authorities. The defendant stated (the driver) has approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand fraudulent mail ballots and is using Hispanic children to sign the ballots because the children s fingerprints would not appear in any databases, according to an arrest affidavit.
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A Former Houston Police Captain was arrested Tuesday after allegedly running a man off the road and restraining him with a pistol in an attempt to prove a nonexistent massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County in exchange for more than $250,000, prosecutors said.
According to an affidavit describing the incident, Former Houston Police Capt. Mark Anthony Aguirre told police that he was a member of a group of private citizens called Liberty Center for God & Country, and that he and his friends had been conducting 24-hour surveillance on the victim s home.
The group’s GoFundMe page, which had raised nearly $70,000 as of Tuesday night, said its members work with investigators to uncover alleged fraud in the election.
December 16, 2020, 9:59 AM)
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A former Houston police captain was arrested Tuesday after allegedly running a man off the road and restraining him with a pistol in an attempt to prove a nonexistent massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County in exchange for more than $250,000, prosecutors said.
According to an affidavit describing the incident, Former Houston Police Capt. Mark Anthony Aguirre told police that he was a member of a group of private citizens called Liberty Center for God & Country, and that he and his friends had been conducting 24-hour surveillance on the victim s home.