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:
Former police officer put gun to repairman’s head, believing he was voter-fraud mastermind: officials
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
HOUSTON, Texas A former police captain convinced an air-conditioning repairman was involved in a “giant” voter-fraud scheme held a gun to the man’s head after crashing into his vehicle, according to prosecutors.
The former officer, Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was arrested Tuesday and is now facing a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, a news release from the Harris County prosecutor’s office says. If found guilty, Aguirre would face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
“He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime, and we are lucky no one was killed,” district attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement. “His alleged investigation was backward from the start first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.”
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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.