UPDATE: Michael Sandford, the British man who seized the firearm of a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer at a Donald Trump rally in June, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two felony charges.
20-year-old Sandford pleaded guilty to one count of illegal alien in possession of a firearm and one count of impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business and official functions.
The maximum penalty for each count is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 13 at 10 a.m.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A judge has ruled that the mother of a British man accused of grabbing a Las Vegas police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally can visit her son.
Michael Sanford was arrested in June at a Trump rally at the Treasure Island hotel-casino. He later told police he wanted to kill the Republican presidential candidate.
The 20-year-old Sanford has been on suicide watch while in federal custody.
His trial is scheduled to start in October.
