Former Houston police captain charged with pointing gun at repairman, believing he was a voter fraud 'mastermind'

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(CNN) A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with running a man off the road and pointing a gun to his head two weeks before the election as part of a baseless voter fraud conspiracy theory, the Harris County district attorney said in a statement.

Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was paid more than a quarter-million dollars by a Houston-based private citizens group investigating unsubstantiated 2020 election fraud claims, prosecutors said.

On October 16, Aguirre asked a lieutenant with the Texas Attorney General's Office to conduct a traffic stop to help with his investigation, according to a Houston police affidavit obtained by CNN. When the idea was rejected, Aguirre said he would do it himself and "make a citizen's arrest," the affidavit says.

Three days later, Aguirre allegedly ran his SUV into the back of a man's truck, and when the man got out, Aguirre pointed a gun at him, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man's back -- an image captured by police body camera when officers arrived, according to prosecutors.

Aguirre told authorities he had conducted surveillance on the man driving the truck for four days, according to the district attorney's news release . He said he suspected there were 750,000 fraudulent ballots inside the truck and that the man was "the mastermind of a giant (voter) fraud," the release states.

reddit_is_tarded on December 16th, 2020 at 15:53 UTC »

They should investigate the ones who paid this loon a quarter million dollars to assault this man.

JaegerBystander on December 16th, 2020 at 15:46 UTC »

Aguirre was paid over a quarter million dollars by a private group called "Liberty Center for God and Country"

He wasn't just following hunches. He was moonlighting as a mercenary.

I'd take a quarter mil to look for fraud. Is there a sign up link somewhere?

Cardchucker on December 16th, 2020 at 15:07 UTC »

Incomplete headline - he followed the guy for 4 days then rammed his truck so he could detain him at gunpoint while an accomplice stole the truck to search it for evidence. No evidence was found, of course, because he was just an AC repair guy doing his job.