A Home staffer is dealing with prices for illegal possession of ammunition after “officers found four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition” in his bag on the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing, in response to the U.S. Capitol Police.
Capitol Police mentioned in a press release emailed to The Hill on Monday that the staffer, Michael Hopkins, got here into the Cannon constructing round 8:45 a.m. “and put his bag through screening.” Police then noticed “what appeared to be ammunition on the x-ray screen.”
“After a hand search of the bag, officers found four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition,” the Capitol Police mentioned of their assertion. “The staffer told the officers that he forgot the ammunition was in the bag.”
Authorities arrested Hopkins, 38, who now faces prices over illegal possession of ammunition, “including one charge for possession of a high-capacity magazine,” Capitol Police mentioned.
Hopkins labored as a communications director for Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.). Nevertheless, Jo Stiles, the New York Democrat’s chief of employees, mentioned in a press release on Monday that “Mr. Hopkins is no longer employed by Representative Morelle’s office effective immediately.”
Previous to his work for Morelle’s workplace, the ex-communications director wrote opinion items for The Hill.
The Hill has reached out to Hopkins for additional remark.
