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I think this is all to save face after Patel made a (bigger) fool of himself on TV claiming they had the shooter when they didnt. This man is the local whackadoo and has restraining orders against him barring him from contacting certain government officials and the LDS church. He was also arrested just after the Boston Marathon bombing for making a post asking the Salt Lake Marathon officials if he could help them place their bombs at the finish line of the race.
It's hard to say though.
I could see that, but also isn't that hard to believe he was there to intentionally help distract after the shooting.
Or hard to believe he's got some connections within the Republican party that would have allowed him to just walk away initially even though he had child porn on his phone.
I seriously doubt he had any connection to the shooter and was just seizing the opportunity to create confusion and disruption as that is his M.O. at public meetings and other events from what is being reported about him.
If you were going to assassinate someone and wanted to get away clean, collaborating with an associate whose job it is to take the blame and get arrested on the spot is just about the dumbest possible option since they could easily give you up while in police custody.
As far as the CP, police may have cloned the contents of his phone and not discovered it until later or perhaps they waited for the prosecutor to decide since the article mentions they were in their underwear in the images, which might not be so cut and dry.
Either way I still think all the publicity around this is just an attempt to save face after they looked like fools. They're coming down hard on whomever they can to make themselves look less inept.