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An ex-cop held an A/C repairman at gunpoint over a false claim he had 750,000 fake ballots, police said
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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An air-conditioning repairman was driving his truck through Houston in late October when suddenly a black SUV slammed into his tail. When he got out, the SUV s driver leaped out and pointed a gun at his head, police said.
When police arrived, the gunman offered an incredible tale: The driver, he said, was the face of a vast election-fraud scheme and had about 750,000 fake ballots stuffed inside his truck.
Former Texas police officer Mark Aguirre arrested for holding man at gunpoint over baseless election fraud claims, police say washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) David Lopez Zuniga has repaired air conditioners for dozen years.
He lives in a mobile home in Houston s southside with his family, and doesn t know anything about elections.
However, Zuniga now finds himself in the middle of a bizarre election fraud case that s attracting national attention.
That s because on Tuesday, former Houston Police Department Captain Mark Aguirre was arrested and charged for running Zuniga off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County. He tried helping him, said Zuniga s step-son Jonathan Reyes, while helping his father translate when ABC13 talked to the family on Wednesday. Then (Aguirre) took out the gun on him. We didn t know this man. Don t even know if he was a cop or not. And we ve never seen him before.