Armed man in ski mask arrested near Republican Convention in Milwaukee

A 21-year-old man in a ski mask was arrested on July 15 afternoon in the US just blocks away from the Republican National Convention after police said a firearm was found hidden in the large tactical backpack he was carrying, Report informs referring to Fox News.

The suspect was spotted by US Capitol Police around 1 p.m., “looking suspicious, wearing a ski mask and a large tactical backpack in the street,” the Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement to Fox News.

Officers “performed a subject stop, and it was determined that the suspect was concealing a firearm in his backpack,” the department said. The man did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Wisconsin or any other state, it added.

Charges were pending on Tuesday, subject to review by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office.