Audio Engineer for ABC Arrested at Obama Event

By Andrew Gauthier 

TVNewser

TVNewser has learned an audio engineer hired to cover Pres. Obama‘s visit to Iowa has been detained by the Secret Service after marijuana was found in his backpack.

The unidentified man, a so-called local hire, was brought on by a cameraman who was hired by ABC News to cover today’s events. ABC News correspondents Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller are both in Des Moines covering Pres. Obama’s visit there.

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The pot was found when the cameraman and soundman were being taken through the customary Secret Service security sweep. More…

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