Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction after Greensboro, North Carolina, police arrested him during a traffic stop that escalated dramatically when he barricaded himself in the office of his roofing business.
The alleged gunman who authorities say tried to kill former President Donald Trump was arrested with a bomb — a “weapon of mass destruction” — following a tense police standoff in 2002, according to authorities.
It’s just one incident in a long history of dangerous and unsettling behavior recounted by cops and neighbors in his hometown.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction after Greensboro, North Carolina, police arrested him during a traffic stop that escalated dramatically when he barricaded himself in the office of his roofing business.
Tracy Fulk, the now-retired Greensboro cop who arrested Routh back then, told The Post the man was on cops’ radar when she spotted him driving with a revoked license and pulled him over.
“When I got just about to the driver’s door, I saw him reach into the center of the car — so of course I shined my flashlight and looked and he opened a duffel back and there was a gun in it,” Fulk recalled.
“He never picked it up. He just kind of held his hand over the duffel bag, so I backed up and I issued commands, and he just decided to put it in drive and he drove,” she added.
