by Natalia Mittelstadt at Just the News
Neither of the two defendants told law enforcement they had any advance knowledge of Ryan Routh’s alleged plans
The Justice Department says two people sold a rifle to Ryan Routh a few weeks before his alleged attempted assassination of President Trump in September 2024.
The two people, Tina Brown Cooper and Ronnie Jay Oxendine, have pleaded guilty to gun-related charges in federal court after their indictments in March and arrests in April, CBS News reported.
Cooper on Monday pleaded guilty to firearm trafficking, and Oxendine pleaded guilty last month to possessing an unregistered firearm after police found a short-barreled shotgun in his storage building.
According to court filings regarding the plea agreements, Cooper allegedly “agreed and conspired with” Oxendine and Routh “to sell and dispose of a firearm to a prohibited person (Routh).” Routh was not allowed to own a firearm due to a prior 2002 weapons conviction.
At the time of the sale of the firearm,…
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