A suspect, identified on Monday as Ryan Routh, 58, was arrested about 40 minutes later driving north on Interstate 95. When asked if he knew why he had been stopped, Routh “responded in the affirmative,” according to the complaint. The license plate on his vehicle had been reported stolen from another car.
Records show a phone associated with Routh was located at the golf course starting at 1.59am local time on Sunday morning.
Routh has at least two prior convictions, both in North Carolina, according to the criminal complaint.
In 2002, he pleaded guilty to possessing a fully automatic gun, commonly known as a machine gun, which is outlawed in the US, and was sentenced to probation. In that case, he fled from a traffic stop in Greensboro and barricaded himself inside his roofing business before police were able to arrest him, according to court records and a 2002 news article by the Greensboro News & Record.
Source: CNA
