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Suspect arrested in White House shooting (Unshaven Knit Cap Wearing Hippie)
WTOP ^ | 11/16/2011 | WTOP's Mark Segraves and The Associated Press

Posted on 11/16/2011 12:18:55 PM PST by Smogger

WASHINGTON - The Secret Service says the man wanted in connection with Friday's shooting near the White House has been taken into custody.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was arrested at the Hampton Inn in Indiana, Pa. at about 12:35 p.m. Wednesday after a hotel employee recognized him and called police. He is currently in the custody of Pennsylvania State Police.

When reached by phone, a hotel employee said he had been instructed by police not to speak to reporters. A bomb squad has since been called to search the hotel.

Ortega-Hernandez was sought by federal authorities after reports of gunfire near the White House on Friday night while President Barack Obama was traveling to a summit in Hawaii. Witnesses heard shots and saw two speeding vehicles in the area. An assault rifle was also recovered.

No one was injured in the shooting, but officials are investigating two bullets that hit the White House, one of them apparently cracking a window on the residential level where the Obama family lives.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; occupywallstreet; oscarhernandez; shootng
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Looks like an OWS to me but hey.

1 posted on 11/16/2011 12:18:59 PM PST by Smogger
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To: Smogger

Another OWS all-star.


2 posted on 11/16/2011 12:19:59 PM PST by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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To: Smogger
Typical right wing evangelical tea party gun nut no doubt.
3 posted on 11/16/2011 12:24:04 PM PST by dblshot (Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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No, his name is a dead give away, he is amish.
4 posted on 11/16/2011 12:26:15 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Smogger
I wonder if he used a Gunwalked weapon?
5 posted on 11/16/2011 12:27:42 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Smogger

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez


Obviously a member of the tea party/sarc


6 posted on 11/16/2011 12:28:25 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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If they caught him while he’s stoned they won’t be getting a straight answer out of him unless the Secret Service bribes him with a few pizza pies.


7 posted on 11/16/2011 12:29:40 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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What?! They arrested Cheech Marin!?


8 posted on 11/16/2011 12:32:22 PM PST by reagandemocrat
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Lengthy but fails to mention the most interesting part — that he had been hanging out at the nearby OWS camp in the days before the incident.


9 posted on 11/16/2011 12:40:57 PM PST by Yardstick
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It’s not hard to see which way the media’s going to go on this one. It’s reported that the guy is from Idaho. He has the word “Israel” tattoed on the side of his neck. He has a tattoo of hands folded in prayer on his chest.


10 posted on 11/16/2011 12:43:53 PM PST by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much. We will much about that be committed.)
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To: Smogger

I bet $10 that he is an illegal alien.


11 posted on 11/16/2011 12:44:59 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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Looks like Che Guevara on a ski holiday to me.


12 posted on 11/16/2011 12:50:32 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I’ll take that bet. The majority of people with Spanish surnames are not here illegally.


13 posted on 11/16/2011 12:50:37 PM PST by Smogger
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To: Yardstick

Not surprising...reports that he is mentally ill, a drug user, a domestic violence perp, and homeless. Glomming onto a tent city in a park would make sense to him and many others of the ilk.

Investigative sources indicate he has an obsession with the White House.

Thus the shooting...


14 posted on 11/16/2011 12:50:53 PM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: reagandemocrat
They arrested Cheech Marin!?

More like Ashton Kutcher!

15 posted on 11/16/2011 12:54:30 PM PST by Smogger
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The tip off for me is his two last names. The first last name is his father’s surname. The second last name is his mother’s surname. That is the legal name system in Mexico and all the other banana republics.


16 posted on 11/16/2011 1:01:44 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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“I got the stuff, open up the door”

“Dave’s not here, man”


17 posted on 11/16/2011 1:10:07 PM PST by reagandemocrat
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Here's a facebook page, but it looks like it was just setup. Notice they include a Fox News story on the Wall section, trying to subtly connect him to the right - http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Oscar-Ortega/255151787867574 .
18 posted on 11/16/2011 1:11:42 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The Chicago Way isn't the American Way.)
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Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez?.......................

Typical KKK sheet wearing, gun toting, Bible clinging, Tea party right wing nut case.............................


19 posted on 11/16/2011 1:14:59 PM PST by Red Badger (Obama's number one economics advisor must be a Magic Eight Ball.................)
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To: Smogger

I bow to your mad typing skills in beating me to this post.

:)

Cheers


20 posted on 11/16/2011 1:16:26 PM PST by DoctorBulldog (I'm a Cainiac! Get over it. -- If the dress aint got no stain, you MUST acquit Cain!)
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