Police in Washington, D.C., arrested a Texas woman, Christina Montoya, who allegedly traveled to the city with a loaded firearm and issued threats against former President Donald Trump.

According to a statement from the D.C. Metropolitan Police, the Secret Service first reported Montoya’s threats to law enforcement.

“Through the detectives’ investigation, 41-year-old Christina Montoya of San Antonio, Texas, was arrested and charged with carrying a pistol without a license, possession of an unregistered firearm, and making threats against a former president,” police said in a statement.

Investigators reported that threats against the former president began on July 20. Police located the woman’s vehicle and, following a search, discovered a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield pistol, a magazine, and a gun lock, according to the police report.

There have been several threats against Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, in the past couple of weeks, including an actual attempt on Trump’s life during a rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.

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In the week following the attempt, Jupiter, Fla., police arrested a Florida man who was charged with issuing “written threats of murder” against Trump, Vance, and their families.

Police said that 68-year-old Michael M. Wiseman was arrested on Friday for allegedly making written threats to murder. Police said Wiseman had posted threats against the Republican presidential candidate and the vice presidential candidate on his Facebook profile, according to Fox News.

Authorities reported receiving warnings about the dangers, which involved physical injury, from several individuals within the area. Jupiter, Florida, is roughly 20 miles, or a 30-minute journey, to the north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach. “JPD coordinated the investigation with the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office,” the department said. “JPD officers took Wiseman into custody without incident.”

Meanwhile, conservative pundit, author, and radio host Dan Bongino has new questions for his former employer, the U.S. Secret Service, over the discovery of a disturbing new video taken moments before the assassination attempt against Trump.

During a broadcast last week, Bongino commented on the video that was taken with a cellphone from a location behind Trump on stage. In the video, a “shadowy figure” can be seen moving along the backside of a building, eventually coming to a stop at a point with a perfect line of sight to the former president. That figure turned out to be the shooter, Thomas Crooks, 20.

Crooks was captured on the cellphone video moving across the roof opposite Trump for a few seconds before disappearing and reappearing moments later. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent with 12 years of service, noted that acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe had mentioned that local authorities were addressing “an issue” with the area where Crooks was spotted, referred to as “the three o’clock,” the Washington Examiner reported.

“If you’re looking at the three o’clock, how the hell do you miss this?!” Bongino said on his show as he played new footage from a counter-sniper as he located Crooks on a nearby rooftop. “This is a cell phone camera! This is not a zoom, high, telephoto, freaking lens used to film a Marvel movie! It’s a cellphone! You can see the guy clear as day! How did they miss this?!” asking, “What is left to defend?”

Bongino went on to say that the agency and the Biden administration are asking Americans to “believe the implausible” regarding excuses by the Secret Service as to why they did not stop Crooks from firing at Trump, grazing his right ear while killing a rallygoer and wounding two others.

WATCH:

Dan Bongino asks how a basic cell phone video can capture a person running on the roof but the Secret Service with high-powered equipment missed it entirely.

“How do you miss this?!”

“This is a cell phone camera. It’s not even focused, and you can still see… pic.twitter.com/K2hNBZrIGB

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 1, 2024

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