Replace 8/21: An earlier model of this text claimed {that a} “mass taking pictures was prevented.” The person in custody didn’t admit to any plans for a mass taking pictures on the time of his arrest and as of the night of 8/20 had not spoken to police or claimed that to be his objective. We’ve up to date the title to extra precisely mirror the information of the scenario as they occurred. A press release from Bass Canyon can be now included.
Attainable catastrophe was prevented this weekend on the Gorge Amphitheater the place Bass Canyon is at the moment underway. Based on a report from the Grant County Sheriff’s Workplace, a person was stopped by venue safety and afterward arrested by police after he was seen inhaling an “unknown gasoline” from a balloon after which carrying two 9mm pistols.
The person was allegedly asking concertgoers when the present ended and the place folks can be exiting from.
“Residents and safety notified deputies round 9 p.m. of a person within the car parking zone,” the report states. “Witnesses’ suspicions have been raised once they noticed the person inhale an unknown substance or gasoline from a balloon after which load two 9mm pistols from the trunk of his automobile. The person hid one pistol within the rear of his waistband and the opposite in an outside-the-waistband holster. The suspect, later recognized as 30-year-old Jonathan R. Moody of Ephrata, approached concertgoers, asking what time the live performance ended and the place folks can be exiting the venue. ”
It continues, “Moody didn’t make entry contained in the venue. Venue safety detained Moody outdoors of the venue gates and disarmed him of the 2 loaded 9mm pistols. After investigating, deputies arrested Moody on suspicion of 1 depend of possession of a harmful weapon and one depend of illegal carrying or dealing with of a weapon. Moody was lodged within the Grant County Jail.”
We’re grateful for the fast motion of each venue workers and the native sheriff’s deputies on web site. Fortunately, nobody was injured and the present continues as we speak and tomorrow.
— Bass Canyon (@BassCanyon) August 21, 2022
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