Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was also arrested on suspicion of leaving white powder on political signs in Ahwatukee, according to Tempe police.

Federal agents on Wednesday morning hauled more than 120 firearms, including “machine guns,” out of the Ahwatukee Foothills home of a man suspected of shooting at a campaign office for the Democratic Party three times and posting bags of white powder labeled as poison near political signs.

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night near his Ahwatukee Foothills home by Tempe police who, according to court documents, used surveillance footage to find the suspect.

  • @jeffw
    65•2 months ago

    If you are a cop afraid to confront a criminal, isn’t that what special units are for? Like wtf are we giving SWAT teams tanks for if they can’t deal with this?

    • @[email protected]
      41•2 months ago

      They also could just arrest him when he left his house for beers or whatever. They dont have to no knock him like he’s “sleeping while black” or anything.

    • Granbo's Holy Hotrod
      20•2 months ago

      If he was handicapped and homeless they would be neck checking this fucker. Probably ly a lie anyway…I bet they went, questioned him, had a big laugh, shook hands and called it a day. This is PHXPD

    • @[email protected]
      8•2 months ago

      They’ll always have excuses, it’s how they justify bigger budgets and ridiculous departmental purchases.

      “What if they have anti tank rockets?” “What if they’re using suicide drones?” “What if they start taking shots at us with phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range?”

      The spectre of the unstoppable criminal provides an extra profit stream for defense contractors on top of forever wars.

    • @Cheems
      3•2 months ago

      So they can get new profile pictures for their social media accounts