A 49-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested near former President Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella on Saturday with a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday.

Deputies assigned to the rally contacted the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint near the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive just before 5 p.m. Saturday, sheriff’s officials said.

They allegedly found the driver in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine. The driver was identified as Vem Miller, and was taken into custody and later booked at the John J. Benoit Detention Center on suspicion of possessing a loaded firearm and possessing a high-capacity magazine.

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    I think you’d be surprised what people can afford to buy when they prioritize their spending… especially in the deserts of CA. I’ve met people out there with actual functioning canons that regularly fire freaking canonballs into the mountains, and to look at them you would guess they are both homeless and heroic addicts who haven’t bathed in a week… and you would only be wrong on the homeless part, and only partly wrong on that one.