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NextImg:NOT GOOD: Armed man arrested after posing as law enforcement at Charlie Kirk memorial site – The Right Scoop

An armed man was arrested at the Charlie Kirk memorial site after posing as law enforcement to provide security.

He apparently had expired law enforcement credentials, and while he was released on bond, he is being investigated in order to determine his intent.

Here’s more from the New York Post:

An armed man who was allegedly posing as a member of law enforcement was arrested by Secret Service agents at the Arizona stadium where Charlie Kirk’s funeral will be held Sunday, according to reports.

Joshua Runkles – who was allegedly carrying a knife, a gun and expired law enforcement credentials –was detained inside State Farm Stadium, home to the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale on Friday, The Washington Post reported, citing a law enforcement official familiar with the incident.

Runkles, 42, told Secret Service agents he was at the site to provide private security and handed them “inactive law enforcement credentials,” the official reportedly told the outlet.

He was taken into custody by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and booked into Maricopa County Jail on charges of impersonating a law enforcement officer, which is a felony in Arizona, and carrying a weapon into a prohibited place, which is a misdemeanor, according to Bart Graves, a spokesperson for the state public safety department.

He has since been released on bond, but an investigation is ongoing to determine his intent and purpose at the stadium, Graves told The Post. The amount of the bond was unclear.

“An investigation is ongoing to determine his intent and purpose at the stadium,” Graves added.

The suspect “is a former deputy sheriff out of Idaho,” a federal source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.

“They are going through his background and trying to figure out what he was up to there,” the source told the outlet.

Runkles allegedly made it inside the stadium “prior to the setup of any secure perimeter,” Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital.

“The U.S. Secret Service in coordination with local law enforcement in Glendale, Arizona, is investigating an individual who was observed exhibiting suspicious behavior” at the stadium, Guglielmi wrote in a statement Saturday.

“The individual was approached by Secret Service and stated during the encounter that he was a member of law enforcement and that he was armed. The individual is not a member of authorized law enforcement working the event and is currently in custody,” Guglielmi said in a statement to The Post. “The U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement are investigating the circumstances as to why he was at the location.”

The individual has not been publicly identified.