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DHS, NBC News, and UPI spell him Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos. ABC News spells him Ronny Guanipa-Chrinos.
The Department of Homeland Security said he told officers he heard voices telling him to come to Washington and kill President Trump. ABC News said the complaint affidavit does not include that sentence. ABC News said he was held without bond after a Friday appearance in D.C. Superior Court. NBC News said a federal source said he will be in federal court Monday.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Thursday evening, shortly before midnight, and 11:42 p.m. are not the same clock. A car, a blue Ford F-150, and a truck he said his boss lent him are not the same vehicle. Carrying a rifle outside of a home or business, and carrying a rifle without a license, are not the same charge name. Held without bond in Superior Court, and a Monday federal date while prosecutors are still reviewing, are not the same next step.
The Department of Homeland Security, in a release dated November 6, 2026, and last updated 11/06/2026, with no clock on either line, reported that on Thursday evening, November 5, Secret Service officers approached a suspect they saw acting suspicious in his car while parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. It reported that when they confronted him, he said he heard voices in his head telling him to come to Washington, D.C. and kill President Trump. It reported the officers then discovered the vehicle had been reported stolen, that he admitted to having weapons in it, and that they found three different firearms, including one rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition. The release names the firearms in a caption: an AR-15 style weapon, a Mac 10, and a Glock 43X. Mac 10, on that caption, is not hyphenated. It names the suspect Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos and calls him an illegal alien from Venezuela. ABC News, by Jack Date, dated November 6, 2026, at 8:09 p.m., with no zone on that clock, spells him Ronny Guanipa-Chrinos. Yordrix is not on that page. The hyphen is. NBC News, by Phil Helsel, Michael Kosnar, and Kyla Guilfoil, dated Nov. 6, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. EST, and UPI, by Pedro Oliveira Jr., dated Nov. 6, 2026, at 8:17 p.m., with no zone on that clock, use the three-part name the release uses. Acting suspicious, on the release, and acting suspiciously, on UPI, are not the same adverb. Thursday evening, on the release and on UPI, shortly before midnight, on ABC News, and 11:42 p.m., on the affidavit NBC News describes, are not the same clock.
What he said is not one account. ABC News reported the affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court says a Secret Service officer on patrol spotted a blue Ford F-150, knocked on the window, and asked if he was OK and whether he had any weapons, and that Guanipa-Chrinos shook his head yes and made a finger gun gesture. It reported that after he got out he told investigators through Google Translate, "I have the gun because they tried to kill me with it, and I had to take it away from them; it's in the brown bag." ABC News reported that according to DHS he told officers he "heard voices in his head telling him to come to Washington, D.C. and kill President Trump," and that the affidavit did not include those alleged remarks. NBC News reported the same DHS quotation, and it reported the affidavit says Chrinos, 26, was asleep in the parked blue Ford F-150 when officers woke him at 11:42 p.m., that they first treated it as a welfare check, and that he used Google Translate to say he had weapons he wanted to turn over to the government. It reported two further lines from the affidavit: "I have the item they wanted to kill me over, along with the outfit to go with it; if you want, I can hand it over without putting up any resistance," and the brown-bag sentence ABC News printed. Asleep, on NBC News, and sitting, in ABC News's lede, are not the same posture. Age 26 is on the NBC News affidavit paragraph. The release, ABC News, and UPI do not print an age. NBC News reported he told investigators the truck belonged to his boss, who had lent it to him, that he had bought the weapons a month ago, and that he had been living in the vehicle. A truck his boss lent him, and a vehicle that had been reported stolen, are both in these accounts. They are not the same ownership. The release says "his car." It does not print Ford, F-150, or truck.
The charge list is not one list. The release says he has been charged with carrying a rifle outside of a home or business, THREE counts of unlawful transportation of a firearm, THREE counts of unregistered firearms, THREE counts of unregistered ammunition, possession of certain dangerous weapons, carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft, and receiving stolen property. THREE is printed in capitals. It says ICE lodged a detainer with the U.S. Marshals Service, where he is currently in custody. NBC News prints that charge list in sentence case, as one count each on the last five, and attributes it to DHS. It does not print the ICE detainer. It reported a federal law enforcement source said prosecutors are reviewing the evidence and that he will be in federal court on Monday, that he was in custody Friday, and that it was not clear whether he had an attorney. Monday, on a story dated Nov. 6, is Nov. 9. The page does not print Nov. 9. UPI says he faces charges including carrying a rifle outside a home or business, three counts each of unlawful transportation of a firearm, possession of unregistered firearms and possession of unregistered ammunition, and that he was also charged with possession of a dangerous weapons, carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft and receiving stolen property. Outside a home, on UPI, and outside of a home, on the release, are not the same phrase. Possession of unregistered firearms, on UPI, and unregistered firearms, on the release, are not the same count name. A dangerous weapons is the spelling on UPI. ABC News reported he has been charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, receiving stolen property, carrying a pistol without a license, carrying a rifle without a license and other firearms charges. A vehicle, on ABC News, and a motor vehicle, on the release, are not the same phrase. Without a license, on ABC News, and outside of a home or business, on the release, are not the same rifle count. ABC News does not print the three-count list. It reported he made an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court on Friday and remains held without bond, according to online court records. Friday, on that sentence, is the Friday of a Nov. 6 story. Held without bond in Superior Court, and a federal source who said prosecutors are still reviewing and that he will be in federal court Monday, are not the same status. The weapons in the affidavit, on ABC News, are a MAC-10 machine pistol, a Glock 43x pistol, and an AR-15 rifle. Machine pistol, handgun on NBC News, and Mac 10 on the release are not the same name. Glock 43x, and Glock 43X, are not the same capitalization. AR-15 rifle, AR-15 style rifle on NBC News, AR-15-style rifle on UPI, and AR-15 style weapon on the release are not the same description.
Where he came from is not one sentence. The release says he illegally entered the United States through Texas in March 2024, was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol, and was then RELEASED into the country by the Biden Administration. RELEASED is printed in capitals. UPI says DHS officials said he entered the United States illegally through Texas in March 2024. It does not print Border Patrol, a release, or the Biden Administration in the text read here. NBC News says DHS said he entered the U.S. illegally in 2024, was arrested by Border Patrol and later released, and that DHS did not provide further details. March is not in that sentence. ABC News says he is undocumented and entered the U.S. through Texas in 2024, according to DHS. Undocumented, and illegal alien, are not the same words. March, Border Patrol, and a later release are not in that ABC News sentence. NBC News reported Secret Service Director Sean Curran said the arrest highlights the agents' training and aim to de-escalte volatile situations, and then quoted him that personnel are trained to respond and that "we are alarmed by the increase in threat cases that continue to arise." De-escalte is the spelling on that page. The release quotes Curran that personnel relied on training "to deescalate a volatile situation that posed an imminent threat to our protectees and other Americans," and it quotes Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that the man "was arrested near the White House before he could harm anyone." Those are their characterizations. They are not a verdict. The charges are what those pages describe. They do not print a conviction. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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