Police: Suspect In Gun Shop Robbery Mailed 161-Page Manifesto To Trump

In this Thursday, April 6, 2017 photo, vehicles drive by an electronic billboard in Janesville, Wis., showing a wanted sign for Joseph Jakubowski. A manhunt was underway Friday for Jakubowski suspected of stealing fi... In this Thursday, April 6, 2017 photo, vehicles drive by an electronic billboard in Janesville, Wis., showing a wanted sign for Joseph Jakubowski. A manhunt was underway Friday for Jakubowski suspected of stealing firearms from a southern Wisconsin gun store, threatening an unspecified attack that prompted several schools to close, and sending an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP) MORE LESS
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A man suspected of stealing “a large quantity of high-end handguns and rifles” from a gun shop in Janesville, Wisconsin, on Tuesday mailed a 161-page manifesto to President Donald Trump, according to police.

Joseph A. Jakubowski, a 32-year-old from Janesville, sent the manifesto on the same day that he allegedly robbed the gun shop, according to a CNN report citing the Rock County Sheriff’s Office. His car was later found on fire nearby, but Jakubowski remains at large.

Cmdr. Troy Knudson at the Rock County Sheriff’s Office said that the White House received a 161-page manuscript Jakubowski mailed to Trump.

Per the sheriff’s office, the manifesto “includes grievances against government and personal angst toward anyone or anything other than natural law or rule.”

“As a result of anti-religion sentiment depicted in Jakubowski’s manifesto, local law enforcement has increased patrols at churches within their jurisdictions,” the office said in a statement on Sunday.

In an update released Monday, the office noted that it is “not aware of any threat towards a specific school or school district.”

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  1. I guess our gun laws are working. Crazy guy couldn’t apply for guns so he had to steal them. Or couldn’t wait for the background check.

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Janesville, huh? Didn’t realize the implosion of Ryancare had caused him to go so far over the edge.

    Isn’t there a chapter in Atlas Shrugged about how to handle defeat gracefully?

  3. Joseph A. Jakubowski, White Male

    Alt Trump: Only proves that White Men are terrorists.

  4. Janesville? Obviously Paul Ryan kinfolk…

  5. How perfect is it that in the mugshot he’s shirtless?

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