Donald Craighead, who had weapons in swastika-tagged truck near DNC, rejected bond

A judge Tuesday purchased a California male to be held without bond, a day after he was detained near the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where cops state they discovered weapons in a pickup showing white supremacist signs.

Court files revealed the male, 44- year-old Donald Craighead of Oceanside, California, making a series of racist, bigoted and otherwise unusual remarks to police officers prior to and after his arrest.

Craighead “exhibited signs of possible mental illness” throughout an interview with 2 unique representatives Tuesday early morning, the officers stated in a court filing summing up the occurrence.

“Specifically, the defendant advised that prior to being stopped by the police, he was ‘patrolling’ for individuals that were trying to change his magnetic frequency, and the gay families behind the September 11th attack that have stalked him for years,” the representatives composed.

Craighead was charged in Washington Superior Court with bring a harmful weapon outside his house or workplace. An lawyer for Craighead pleaded innocent on his behalf and informed the judge that “most of his history, with the exception of one incident,” is nonviolent.

Magistrate Judge Lloyd NolanJr purchased him apprehended without bond up until his next court dateSept 28.

Craighead was stopped around midnight Monday after officers discovered the truck– which had a Nazi swastika painted on the motorist’s side mirror and an “American flag printout” where the motorist’s license ought to be– idling in front of the DNC head office structure, according to an affidavit.

Once stopped, an officer seen “a large single edged bayonet style knife with a blade approximately 15 inches long” on the traveler’s seat of the Dodge Dakota pickup, the affidavit stated. Another court file stated that upon additional evaluation, that product was really a big searching knife with a blade approximately 7.5 inches in length.

Craighead was put in handcuffs. When asked whether there were more weapons in the truck, he informed officers about a 21.5- inch-long machete in a black sheath on the front control panel, according to the affidavit.

Craighead then asked among the officers why he was being pulled over “when there are Brown people hurting white people,” according to the affidavit.

Craighead utilized homophobic slurs in discussion with the officers. He was using a Tee shirts related to the far-right “boogaloo movement,” which promotes for a 2nd Civil War, the affidavit stated. Craighead however declared no association with any extremist group.

A search of the truck exposed “a box containing duck bones” and clippings of hair obviously coming from Craighead, the interview summary specified.

Police likewise discovered a 4 little silver cans taped together which contained coins and playing dice, along with what seemed dirt. In the door panel was a cardboard box with the word “bazooka” composed on it, consisting of little glass containers of orange paint.

The representatives likewise recovered a journal concealed in the engine block, that included names, telephone number, addresses and referrals to the “MK-Ultra Machine.” MK-ULTRA was a speculative, Cold War- period CIA program concentrated on mind control.

Asked about the White supremacist signs on his truck– which likewise consisted of an Odin’s cross and Norse runes, the affidavit stated– Craighead supposedly informed the representatives he did not always sign up for Nazi ideology.

“However,” authorities composed, “he agreed with having the option of genocide for a certain group of people if they were to become brainwashed.”