Ahead of the polls closing in Texas Tuesday, on the first major primary night of the 2026 midterms, a suspect who drove from Oklahoma was arrested outside GOP candidate Ken Paxton’s Dallas headquarters around 5:15 p.m., later found to be in possession of ammo following a reported disturbance.<\/p>\n
The arrest came after Dallas police officers were called to the 3000 block of Fairmount Street due to reports of a “suspicious individual,” according to authorities. The suspect, who appears to be from Tulsa, Oklahoma,<\/a> reportedly entered a vehicle that did not have license plates properly displayed and proceeded to leave the area. Officers then conducted a traffic stop and the driver was subsequently arrested for traffic violations. After police searched the suspect’s vehicle, they found ammunition inside the car.<\/p>\n Video of the incident shows ammo being placed on the hood of a car as they searched the vehicle in question. The suspect handcuffed can also be seen.<\/p>\n AUSTIN BAR SHOOTING VICTIMS NAMED AS FBI INVESTIGATES POTENTIAL TERRORISM NEXUS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The incident came on the first major primary night of the 2026 midterms,<\/a> which will culminate with a slew of general elections in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n It also follows what officials are investigating as a terror-related mass shooting outside an Austin bar,<\/a> by a man who was in possession of an Iranian flag and who was wearing a shirt that read “Property of Allah.”<\/p>\n TEXAS DA SAYS NO CHARGES FOR POLICE IN TERROR ATTACK RESPONSE AMID CRITICISM OF MANDATORY GRAND JURY REVIEW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Texas is facing some contentious primaries Tuesday, including Paxton’s U.S. Senate race<\/a> and a slew of important House races. After calls from Democrats to extend voting hours Tuesday, a judge decided to keep them open an extra two hours until 9:00 p.m. The extension followed chaos because local Republican parties refused to hold joint primaries with Democrats, creating changes in typical ballot casting structures, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n Paxton is facing up against longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,<\/a> who has held the seat since 2002. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, is also in the race and will likely force a runoff race, experts have indicated. Due to the likelihood of a runoff, the results probably will take several weeks for the Texas GOP Senate primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahead of the polls closing in Texas Tuesday, on the first major primary night of the 2026 midterms, a suspect who drove from Oklahoma was arrested outside GOP candidate Ken Paxton’s Dallas headquarters around 5:15 p.m., later found to be in possession of ammo following a reported disturbance. The arrest came after Dallas police officers … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}