Really, what took so long? It’s a miracle she didn’t flee the country. I have thought it possible that Mateen had been set up for a sting by the feds and they lost control of him, which would have explained their hesitancy inarresting Salman. Let’s see if perhaps they’ve already arranged a plea deal so there’s no public trial.
The widow of Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Orlando nightclub massacre, has been arrested in San Francisco, sources tell CBS News.
Noor Salman is facing charges of aiding and abetting, as well as obstruction of justice in the case of the worst mass shooting in American history. She moved to the San Francisco area after the June shooting, in which her husband was killed by SWAT team members after slaughtering 49 people inside a popular gay nightclub.
Salman is expected to make her first appearance tomorrow in San Francisco.
Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during a three-hour standoff. Salman has told the FBI that her husband had become radicalized in the year before the attack.
During the shooting, Mateen was communicating with Salman via text message. A law enforcement source said the couple exchanged, “I love you.”
Law enforcement sources have long suspected she had a role in the attack, saying previously that Salman purchased ammunition with her husband, and they believe she drove with him as he cased the Pulse nightclub prior to the shooting.
Hard to see a plea deal get approved so quickly. Uglier approach would be to destroy all the evidence against her and then when Trump DOJ goes to prosecute, it goes down in flames. That way, Obama can say, I arrested her, Trump screwed it up.