Federal agents on Wednesday morning hauled more than 120 firearms, including “machine guns,” out of the Ahwatukee Foothills home of a man suspected of shooting at a campaign office for the Democratic Party three times and posting bags of white powder labeled as poison near political signs .
Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night near his Ahwatukee Foothills home by Tempe police who, according to court documents, used surveillance footage to find the suspect.
Pictures of the suspect vehicle were shared through Silent Witness, resulting in tips from community members who recalled Kelly had been accused of stealing campaign signs in the area in 2022, Tempe police Chief Ken McCoy said at a news conference on Wednesday.
About a dozen plainclothes law enforcement personnel were taking inventory of a menagerie of weapons in the carport of Kelly’s home on Wednesday morning. A reporter overheard mention of handguns being found in a master bathroom safe and the words “machine gun” and “silencers.”