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DENVER (AP) - Police say a Wyoming man who tried to carry two hunting rifles and two pistols into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's downtown Denver hotel was arrested on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.
Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley says Pelosi and other guests briefly left the hotel Sunday but were never in danger.
Twenty-9-year-old Joseph Calanchini, of Pinedale, faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon. Police officers at the Grand Hyatt hotel noticed him carrying a rifle-type case at the entrance and detained him.
Wiley said he didn't know if the weapons were loaded.
Calanchini told KUSA-TV it was bad timing and that he didn't know the DNC was in town. He was released from jail on $10,000 bond. Calanchini told KUSA he had the weapons because he was getting ready for a hunting trip.
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August 25, 2008
11:50 a.m.Report inappropriate content
Didn't know the convention was in town?
Didn't know if the guns were loaded?!?!
Perhaps he was???
August 26, 2008
2:31 a.m.Report inappropriate content
oooh the scott with a zinger!
August 26, 2008
11:22 a.m.Report inappropriate content
Wait, let me try again...
He was loaded enough for himself and his guns!
A little better.