US Secret Service detains man with package outside White House
28 March 2017 |
4:04 pm
The US Secret Service detained a male suspect carrying a package and making "suspicious comments" near the White House Tuesday, according to an official who said he was taken into custody and explosives experts were deployed.
The US Secret Service detained a male suspect carrying a package and making “suspicious comments” near the White House Tuesday, according to an official who said he was taken into custody and explosives experts were deployed.
A Secret Service official said the man had approached uniformed officers near 15th and Pennsylvania at around 10:15 am, a block from the White House.
The man was separated from the package and detained in a police vehicle, a security perimeter was established and “the package is now in Secret Service custody,” the official said, asking not to be named.
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Psycho—his mind is not well..
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