US Secret Service detains man with package outside White House
A Secret Service officer asks members of the media to stay inside the press briefing room at the White House in Washington, DC, March 28, 2017, during a lockdown for a suspicious package near the White House grounds. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON
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..
We will review and take appropriate action.