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Anthony Shark,
54, was arrested on Tuesday night after refusing instructions to
leave a street outside the building that agents had closed off
while protecting Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed
in Manhattan federal court.
According to the complaint, Shark, who was carrying a firearm in
a holster, tried to push through a human wall that agents formed
to prevent him from moving forward, and grabbed at agents as
they sought to restrain him. The complaint was made public on
Wednesday.
The Secret Service said in a statement the arrest took place
just prior Trump's motorcade arriving and that agents later
determined Shark had a lawful gun permit.
Shark expressed no "direction of interest" toward Trump or
anyone else under Secret Service protection, the Secret Service
said.
Annalisa Miron, a court-appointed lawyer for Shark, told
reporters after a court hearing on Wednesday that the case was
"just another example of Donald Trump ruining another person's
life."
At the hearing, Miron said her client posed no danger and works
near Trump Tower as a security guard at luxury jeweler Harry
Winston's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.
Shark was released after the court hearing and ordered by U.S.
Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses to stay out of Trump Tower.
"Can I trust you to stay away from the Secret Service?" she
said.
"Yes," Shark replied.
Shark faces one count of assaulting and resisting a Secret
Service agent. He faces a maximum of eight years in prison.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York, editing by G Crosse)
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