A man in California was arrested this week for allegedly going on a shooting spree late at night, killing more than 80 animals at a property located next to where he lived.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office arrested 39-year-old Vicente Joseph Arroyo after he shot animals for nearly three hours during the early morning hours on Tuesday in a vineyard in Prunedale, which is located roughly 100 miles south of San Francisco.

A shelter in place order was put into effect while officers searched a five-mile radius as the shooting happened. While they could hear the gun shots, they struggled to find the suspect because it was “extremely dark” and the area was “covered in thick vegetation.”

A SWAT team made contact with the suspect after a police drone revealed an individual in the area who had crashed a vehicle. Arroyo was arrested and taken into custody without further incident, police said.

“Once the scene was secured, it was discovered that Arroyo had killed approximately 80 animals including miniature horses, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and other types of birds,” police said. “Some animals had survived but were taken by SPCA to be euthanized due to the severity of their injuries.”

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Multiple firearms were located at the scene and more were recovered from his trailer where he lived after police executed a search warrant.

“It is without a doubt that the warrant served by our deputies and detectives, which has resulted in the seizure of these additional weapons, has made our community safer,” said Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto. “I am confident that we have prevented another tragedy from happening in the future.”

Arroyo was charged with Willful Discharge of a Firearm with Gross Negligence, Cruelty to Animals, Illegal Possession of Assault Weapon, Vandalism, Criminal Threats, and Felon In Possession of a Firearm.

Bail was initially set at $50,000, but the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office was able to obtain a bail enhancement, boosting his bail to $1,000,000.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned this week that past remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris indicate that she would be a serious threat to America’s First Amendment rights if elected as president.

Cruz made the remarks during his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson while talking about video clips that have recently gone viral that highlight remarks from Harris’ 2019 presidential campaign where she advocated clamping down on free speech by going after social media companies for not censoring content.

“Kamala has a long, long history of calling for censorship, calling for silencing anyone who disagrees with her, of wanting to use government power to silence her critics,” Cruz said. “If Kamala Harris becomes president, I predict now she will try to muzzle X. She will try to ban X. She wants to follow Brazil’s path and ban X. She wants to use government power to go after big tech and force them to be her censors.”

Cruz said that Harris shows more disdain for the First Amendment than any other presidential candidate in more than two centuries.

“The last time we had a presidential candidate with this antipathy was John Adams, our second president, who had enforced the Alien and Sedition Acts and used them to persecute his political opponents,” he said. “It’s been two centuries since that has happened since then, and Kamala Harris displays an unprecedented willingness to use government power to silence you.”

He noted that Harris believes that free speech is “merely a privilege and a privilege that she, as the dictator, can revoke if you dare disagree with her.”

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“It is not a privilege,” he said. “The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. It’s not a privilege. It is a right protected in the Bill of Rights.”

Kamala Harris pledged to weaponize the DOJ even more and use it to attack platforms for free speech like X.

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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 7, 2024