How did a suspect under active robbery investigation manage to approach a presidential event with a loaded weapon and radio devices?

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He appears to have gotten that close because he had not been arrested in the robbery case and was only under investigation, meaning there was likely no legal order, warrant or watchlist entry preventing him from being on the property. Authorities have said deputies only learned of the El Segundo robbery investigation after they made contact with him at the golf course. The available reporting indicates this was not a perimeter breach during the presidential event itself. Taele was spotted two days before Trump’s scheduled fundraiser, while security preparations were underway. Plainclothes federal agents noticed him walking the grounds, taking photos and videos, and appearing to monitor security activity. That observation triggered the stop. The weapon also was not reportedly on his person in the same way as a drawn firearm at the venue entrance. Deputies found a loaded 16-round magazine in his pocket, and a loaded pistol with a round chambered in his car in the golf-course parking lot, along with another loaded magazine. Later searches of his home turned up more weapons, body armor, notebooks with “concerning statements,” and radio devices. What remains unclear is how he accessed the grounds at all, whether he passed through any screening point, whether the site was fully locked down that far in advance, and whether the robbery investigation had been shared broadly enough across agencies before the encounter. So far, the evidence suggests he was detected because agents on si…

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