A former police captain with the Houston Police Department was arrested while trying to conduct an independent investigation to prove voter fraud in the 2020 election.
On Tuesday, police arrested and charged 63-year-old Mark Anthony Aguirre with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony punishable with up to 20 years in prison, after he allegedly ran a man off a road and pointed a gun at him. Aguirre claimed to have been conducting surveillance on a man he suspected to be part of a voter fraud scheme.
“He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime, and we are lucky no one was killed,” said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg in a statement. “His alleged investigation was backward from the start – first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.”
According to an affidavit obtained by ABC 13, Aguirre claimed he was part of a group called the “Liberty Center” that was conducting a “civilian investigation” into a purported ballot fraud scheme. According to authorities, the man in question was an air conditioner repairman.
Aguirre rammed his SUV into the back of the repairman’s truck, telling authorities he suspected he was hiding over 750,000 ballots in his truck. After running into his truck, Aguirre allegedly pointed a handgun at the man and forced him to lay on the ground until police came.
According to the affidavit, no ballots were in the repairman’s truck, only parts and tools he had for his job.
On Monday, the Electoral College voted to make Joe Biden the next president. President Trump’s legal team has consistently made claims there was a national voter fraud conspiracy during the 2020 election but has not provided any evidence to substantiate that claim. Trump’s allies have also tried to reverse the results of the election, though all have failed thus far to change the outcome.
Attorney General William Barr announced earlier this month that the Justice Department has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”
