JUST IN: Suspicious Man With Truck Loaded With Ammunition Detained Outside Ken Paxton’s Campaign Event

Dallas police detained a man outside the Marriott Dallas Uptown hotel, the site of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s primary election night watch party.

The incident occurred shortly before 6 pm Central Time as attendees arrived for the event, which was scheduled to begin around 7 pm following the close of polls in the Texas Republican Senate primary. Paxton, a candidate in the three-way race against incumbent Senator John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt, was hosting the gathering at the hotel.

According to a report from local outlet KWTX, the man entered the hotel and requested to use the bathroom, telling staff he was an Uber driver. Campaign staff and security questioned the claim, particularly after noting his vehicle had no license plates, and instructed him to leave the property.

Police responded to the scene and conducted a search of the blue sedan, identified as a Chrysler, parked outside.

Officers recovered multiple ammunition magazines for rifles and pistols — some loaded, others unloaded — along with boxes of ammunition and shotgun shells from the trunk and interior of the vehicle. No firearms were found.

Police bagged the items as evidence on the hood and from the trunk of the car. The vehicle, which had no license plates displayed, was later towed.

A license plate was reportedly located inside the car.

The suspect, whose identity has not been released, was described as wearing a camouflage hat, a camouflage face mask covering his mouth and nose, sunglasses, and gloves.

He was also carrying a camouflage rucksack and had no identification on him at the time of the detention.

The man was placed in the back of a Dallas police cruiser and taken into custody. No injuries were reported, and the situation did not escalate beyond the detention.

Dallas police have not released details on the man’s identity, any charges filed, or a motive. It remains unclear whether the incident was connected to Paxton’s watch party or coincidental.

The event itself proceeded without further disruption. Paxton’s watch party took place on the same night as Texas’s high-profile Senate primaries, in which early results indicated no candidate in the Republican race reached the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a May 26 runoff.