QUINCY, WA (CelebrityAccess) – Law enforcement officials in Washington state arrested an armed man outside of a music festival on Friday.
“Grant County sheriff’s deputies on Friday night believe they stopped an Ephrata man who may have had plans to commit a mass shooting at the Gorge Amphitheatre,” a representative for the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
According to USA Today, festival fans at Bass Canyon Music Festival, a three-day electronic music festival observed a man inhale an unknown substance from a balloon before holstering a pistol and concealing a second firearm in his waistband.
The man, identified by the sheriff’s office as 31-year-old Jonathan R. Moody, allegedly approached festival attendees outside of the fully sold ot festival and asked when the music was over and people would exit the venue.
The festival-goers alerted law enforcement officials who detained Moody and relieved him of two loaded 9MM pistols.
He was subsequently arrested for possession of a dangerous weapon and one count of unlawful carrying or handling of a weapon.
— Bass Canyon (@BassCanyon) August 21, 2022
