Man arrested for having loaded gun near Biden event

Company President Mark Louchheim led Biden through a concrete-floored assembly room where employees in safety glasses were bent over their work stations building and testing soap dispensers.

Biden also plans to attend an evening fundraiser at the Beverly Wilshire hotel benefiting the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to the White House.

By contrast, Biden said, the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is inadequate, leading to annual earnings of just $14,500 a year. Andrew Smith said. The loaded firearm was in a locked box in the vehicle, police said.

Law enforcement officers confronting the man were alerted to the possibility of a gun when he “advised them that he had a loaded weapon in the vehicle”, a Secret Service spokeswoman in Washington, Nicole Mainor, told Reuters.

“As Vice President Biden swings through the Golden State on the taxpayer dime, people are wondering if he will challenge Hillary Clinton in the Democrat primary”, Fetalvo said.

Larry Ira Estrin, 62, of Los Angeles was arrested on suspicion of possessing a loaded weapon and was being held on $35,000 bail. The Los Angeles Times reported that a man with a gun was detained near the venue at about noon. Estrin, of Los Angeles, will probably be released later in the day, Kirkman said.