A man who was arrested with a loaded gun outside a Donald Trump rally in California has denied that he was intending to assassinate the former president. Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas, was arrested Saturday at a checkpoint in Coachella Valley after he was allegedly found illegally in possession of a shotgun,

Vem Miller, a Las Vegas resident, was charged with possession of a loaded firearm and high-capacity magazine ahead of Trump's rally Saturday.

Vem Miller, the armed suspect arrested Saturday near the Trump rally in Coachella, California, seemed to have kept a low profile in his former Las Vegas neighborhood, where neighbors said they only saw the one-time Nevada Assembly candidate a handful of times in his years of living on the block.