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Arizona police are engaged in a desperate manhunt for a man who threatened to shoot Former President Donald Trump during his visit to the southern border.
Knewz.com has learned that 66-year-old Ronald Lee Syrvud has created fears about a particularly vulnerable stretch of land in Cochise County near the fence.
More than just a threat, reports indicate that Syrvud is implicated in a plot.
Cochise County Sheriff’s Department has since released an advisory regarding the fugitive saying:
“This subject has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI / Failure to Appear for DUI and from Graham County Arizona for Hit/Run and Felony Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.”
“The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office also has an absconder hold for this subject for failing to register as a sex offender.”
It goes on to say: “Public Safety consideration: Syrvud is being sought as an investigative lead for threats to kill a presidential candidate.”
The subject of the manhunt is described as a white male who wears glasses, weighs 220 pounds, and is 6 feet tall.
His last known location was Benson.
Trump is expected to visit the decidedly vulnerable stretch of border in said county on Thursday, August 22.
Notably, his running mate, J.D. Vance, visited the same location on August 1. While there, he slammed Kamala Harris.
“It's hard to believe until you see it with your own eyes, just how bad the policies of the Kamala Harris administration have been when it comes to the southern border,” he told his listeners.
“If people can come into this country and they know they're never going to be deported, you effectively have an open border. That's what Kamala Harris promised. That's what Kamala Harris did, and Donald Trump and I promise to do exactly the opposite.”
Vance’s claims come months after the former president killed a bipartisan immigration deal.
Said deal came up again during the Democratic National Convention when Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, claimed the Republican frontrunner nixed it because he feared it would endanger his chances at a second term in the White House.
Harris, however, has since lashed out at Trump expressing that he was more talk than action.
“Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk,” she said around the time of Vance’s border visit.
“I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them. In case after case, and I won,” she claimed.
This latest perceived threat comes a month and a half after a bullet fired by a registered Republican voter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, zipped through Trump’s right ear. The local Butler (Pennsylvania) County Sheriff's Department and the Secret Service passed the buck back and forth—but ultimately, it landed on the latter’s doorstep.
The indignant Republicans blasted the agency’s boss Kimberly Cheatle who resigned, and then blasted her replacement, Ronald Rowe who stood his ground.
The investigation is yet to yield a motive for the shooting.