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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.
Former Houston PD captain Aguirre charged for attacking A/C repairman falsely accused of voter fraud
and last updated 2020-12-16 12:59:08-05
HOUSTON, TX â A former Houston Police Captain was arrested and charged for allegedly running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove false claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County, according to the Harris County District Attorneyâs Office.
Former Houston Police Capt. Mark Anthony Aguirre, who went to authorities with pre-election claims that a massive voter fraud scheme was underway in Harris County, was instead arrested himself Tuesday and charged for running a man off the road and pointing at gun at this head in an attempt to prove his claims.
December 16, 2020, 9:59 AM)
Lights on top of a police vehicle.
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.
From Liberty Center for God & Country s Facebook page.
A former police captain was arrested and charged with assaulting an air conditioner repairman who he falsely thought was carrying 750,000 fraudulent ballots in his truck. The organization allegedly paying the former cop to prove supposed election fraud is led by a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and its Facebook page is filled with conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office stated on December 15 that former Houston Police Capt. Mark Anthony Aguirre was arrested by police and charged “with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.” The office stated: