Retired cop arrested outside Trump Tower in spat with Secret Service agents

NEW YORK – Federal authorities say a retired police officer who tried to breach a secured area outside New York’s Trump Tower as Donald Trump was coming home has been arrested.

Authorities say he was carrying a gun, but legally, and posed no threat to the Republican presidential nominee.

Anthony Shark was released without bail Wednesday. The 54-year-old is charged with assaulting Secret Service agents.

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Authorities say he defied agents’ orders, tried to walk through a sealed-off stretch of sidewalk and grabbed at agents Tuesday night.

Defence lawyer Annalisa Miron says Shark is a retired New York Police Department officer working as a security guard at a jeweler near Trump Tower.

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She calls the incident an “example of Donald Trump ruining another regular person’s life.”

Trump’s campaign referred inquiries to the Secret Service.