Pizzagate Suspect Pleads Not Guilty To Gun Charges

[riversedge]

Source: buzzfeed





North Carolina man charged with bringing loaded guns to a DC restaurant to investigate “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory will remain in jail as the case proceeds.
posted on Dec. 16, 2016, at 9:04 a.m.
Zoe Tillman




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Comet Ping Pong in Washington, DC. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters



..............Edgar Welch, 28, will remain in jail as the case proceeds. Prosecutors had argued that Welch should stay behind bars because he was a flight risk and posed a danger to the community. Welch’s attorney did not challenge that request at a hearing on Friday morning.

Welch allegedly walked into Comet Ping Pong, a restaurant in northwest Washington, around 3 p.m. on Dec. 4 carrying a loaded AR-15 rifle and a .38 caliber handgun. He later told police that he was investigating reports he’d seen online that the restaurant was the site of a child sex slave ring, according to charging documents.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Thursday charging Welch with one federal count of interstate transportation of a firearm with the intent to commit an offense, as well as two charges under DC law, for assault with a dangerous weapon and possessing a firearm during a crime of violence.

The local possession charge—which Welch wasn’t charged with when he was first arrested—carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail, as well as a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. The federal charge and the local assault charge have maximum sentences of 10 years.....................

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/pizzagate-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-gun-charges?utm_term=.lgXlz6dAe#.adXaLybrj

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It is really scary that some folks can be so susceptible to fake news--to take it so seriously.

[louis-t]

1. And even after finding out they were mistaken

still cling to the theory.

[notdeplorable]

2. The Why..

Have we learned yet why the conspiracy theory targets this restaurant? There must be some reason the kooks decided to smear them

[rgbecker]

9. You'll learn a lot from this. The stuff on the web...OMG!

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/83-voyage-into-pizzagate/

[JHB]

11. It hosts events, has bands play, etc., including at least one Clinton-connected fundraiser...

Once the breathless conspiracy nitwits on 4chan and Reddit sifted through the campaign emails on Putileaks and decided "pizza" was a code word, a Washington pizza place mentioned in those emails instantly becomes the the focus of these shithouse Shelocks.

[Jake Stern]

3. Wonder how long it will take Chump to pardon him

Six months? A year?

[lark]

4. Not guilty?

OMG, how can he be not guilty when he in fact committed the act? WTF is wrong with Drumpf and his supporters and their inability to take any responsibility for their personal actions? I'd love to ban every one of them from this country as they add nothing of value and create all the fuckery we have to deal with constantly. Of course, that can't happen, I'm just dreaming of a better, more sane world and venting because we are so far down the path of dictatorship and one party rule that it's scary.

[onenote]

5. Because a not guilty plea gives a defendant

The opportunity to negotiate a plea deal with respect to the punishment. Standard operating practice.

[Recursion]

7. This early on it's pretty much a formality

It simply means "I do not at this point have a deal with the prosecutor"

[jmowreader]

10. If you have a good lawyer, it's possible you could get completely off

Witness the Bundys in Oregon. To you and I (and, indeed, 93 percent of the free world) believe the Bundy Bunch is as guilty as a cat in a goldfish bowl. With proper lawyering, they were acquitted.

[Sunlei]

6. after he sits in jail for a while, he could claim he believed the Republican promoted tweet-lies.

[jpak]

8. I heard somewhere that there were some stupid gun toting mutherfuckers in NC

And yes, the intel was right.