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(NewsNation) — A antheral who allegedly pointed an AK-47-style firearm done the obstruction astatine Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach Sunday wherever the erstwhile president was golfing adjacent has been taken into custody, authorities say.
The man, identified to NewsNation by a instrumentality enforcement root arsenic Ryan Wesley Routh, is described arsenic a achromatic antheral successful his mid-60s. He is believed to beryllium the fishy who was crouched successful bushes adjacent the play nine perimeter, equipped with an AK-47-style limb equipped with a scope. Two backpacks and a Go-Pro camera were besides recovered with the firearm adjacent the perimeter from wherever the fishy had fled.
At astir 1:30 p.m. section time, authorities received a telephone reporting shots fired astatine the play people wherever Trump was playing a circular of golf.
A witnesser told constabulary the fishy fled the country successful a achromatic Nissan and provided investigators with photos of the suspect's licence plate. Using that photo, authorities accidental they enactment retired a "a precise urgent BOLO (Be On the Lookout) for the suspect's conveyance and plates.
The fishy dropped his limb and fled successful an SUV. Authorities recovered an AK-47 with a scope and a GoPro camera successful the bushes wherever helium was. They besides located 2 backpacks afloat of ceramic tile hung connected the fence.
Northbound I-95 astatine 714 is unopen down. Based connected BOLO accusation released by Palm Beach County, the Martin County Sheriff's Office has stopped a conveyance and taken a fishy into custody believed to beryllium connected to a shooting incidental astatine Trump International successful Palm Beach County. 
Northbound I-95 astatine 714 is unopen down. Based connected BOLO accusation released by Palm Beach County, the Martin County Sheriff's Office has stopped a conveyance and taken a fishy into custody believed to beryllium connected to a shooting incidental astatine Trump International successful Palm Beach County. 
The fishy dropped his limb and fled successful an SUV. Authorities recovered an AK-47 with a scope and a GoPro camera successful the bushes wherever helium was. They besides located 2 backpacks afloat of ceramic tile hung connected the fence.
Sheriff vehicles are pictured adjacent Trump International Golf Club, Sunday. Sept. 15, 2024, successful West Palm Beach, Fla., aft gunshots were reported successful the vicinity of Republican statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Stephanie Matat)
FILE - Security agents speech astatine the entranceway to erstwhile President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, March 31, 2023, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
Martin County Sheriff William D. Snyder said his deputies “immediately flooded” northbound I-95, deploying to each exit betwixt the Palm Beach County enactment to the southbound and St. Lucie County enactment to the north.
“One of my roadworthy patrol units saw the vehicle, matched the tag and we acceptable up connected the vehicle,” Snyder said, “We pinched successful connected the car, got it safely stopped and got the operator successful custody.”
Snyder told WPTV that the fishy “was not equipped erstwhile we took him retired of the car.”
The antheral had a calm, level demeanor and showed small emotion erstwhile helium was stopped by police, Snyder said, saying the fishy did not question wherefore helium was being pulled over.
“He ne'er asked, ‘What is this about?’ Obviously, instrumentality enforcement with agelong rifles, bluish lights, a batch going on. He ne'er questioned it,” Snyder said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been briefed connected the concern and is receiving regular updates astir it, a Justice Department spokeswoman said.
The station by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office indicated the fishy was apprehended adjacent Palm City, Florida, astir a 45-mile thrust northbound of Trump’s play course. Northbound lanes of I-95 were unopen down, the sheriff’s bureau said.
The erstwhile president said that helium is harmless and well.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
