MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed pistol outside the security perimeter last year.
as he was walking near the convention's security zone on the gathering's first day in July 2024, according to a criminal complaint. Tinsley was wearing black pants and a ski mask and was carrying what the complaint described as a black tactical backpack. Agents found an AK-47-style pistol in the backpack.
The arrest came just two days after Thomas Matthew Crooks Donald Trump during a campaign appearance in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was a presidential candidate at the time and went on to capture the White House in the November elections.
Online court records show Tinsley, now 22, pleaded guilty July 3 to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Marisabel Cabrera, a former Democratic state representative, sentenced him to 26 days time served.
Tinsley's attorney, public defender Elizabeth Ellsworth-Kasch, declined comment when reached by phone Monday.
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