{"id":11492,"date":"2011-11-21T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T20:57:03","slug":"man-charged-with-trying-to-assassinate-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11492","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged With Trying To Assassinate Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — A man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama<\/strong> or his staff.<\/p>\n

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez<\/strong> made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pennsylvania hotel. He will be taken back from a federal court in Pittsburgh to face the charges in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Ortega<\/strong> will remain in federal custody at least until a magistrate in Washington can determine if he should remain jailed until his trial on the charge, which carries up to life in prison.<\/p>\n

Ortega<\/strong> sat quietly as the hearing began, his hands free but his feet shackled. The 21-year-old said only, “Yes, ma’am” when he was asked if he understood that he would be going back to Washington to face the charge.<\/p>\n

Authorities said a man clad in black who was obsessed with Pres. Obama<\/strong> pulled his car within view of the White House on Friday night and fired shots from an assault rifle, cracking a window of the first family’s living quarters while the president was away.<\/p>\n

Soon after, U. S. Park Police found an abandoned vehicle, with an assault rifle inside it, near a bridge leading out of the nation’s capital to Virginia. The car led investigators to Ortega<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The FBI took custody of Ortega’s<\/strong> car Thursday afternoon to continue the process of reviewing evidence, said Lindsay Godwin<\/strong>, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington field office.<\/p>\n

Ortega<\/strong> was arrested after a hotel desk clerk recognized his picture. He had been reported missing Oct. 31 by his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — A man accused of firing two shots at the White House last week has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez made his first court appearance before a federal magistrate in Pittsburgh on Thursday, one day after he was arrested at a western Pennsylvania hotel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}