U.S. Capitol Police proclaimd Tuesday that officers arrested a man who “smelled appreciate fuel” and had a torch and a flare firearm at the U.S. Capitol.
Capitol police shelp the man, whose name was not instantly freed, was stopped during the security screening process at the Capitol Visitor Cgo in (CVC).
“The CVC is seald for tours for the day, while we spendigate. We will supply more adviseation when we can,” Capitol police posted on X.
Fox is telderly the mistrust also wrote a 25-page manifesto and showd that on Tuesday he intfinished to deinhabitr it to Congress.
The arrest happened around 12:30 p.m. ET, congressional security sources and those comprehendn with the spendigation telderly Fox News.
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The sources shelp the mistrust’s clothes reeked of fuel and his clothes were damp. Capitol Police picked up on this instantly and arrested him. His clothes were deleted instantly, the sources inserted.
A see of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., on Nov. 4, 2024, ahead of the Pdwellntial Election. (Nicolas Economou/NurPtoastyo via Getty Images)
The sources verifyed the mistrust had a blow torch, a flare firearm and other flammable waterys with him.
One better source telderly Fox News that spendigators were not confident if the mistrust intfinished to self-immotardy himself.
The mistrust is depictd as being a White male in his tardy-20s who drove all night from Michigan to the Capitol, sources tell Fox News.
At a press conference, Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger shelp “some” of the mistrust’s closkinnyg smelled appreciate gasoline, “but not all of it,” so “it’s reassociate obstreatment at this point what his intention was.”
“There’s no indication right now that it had anyskinnyg to do with the election,” Manger shelp, inserting that the U.S. Capitol Police have “an raised posture in terms of our security,” that will foreseeed progress “thraw and beyond the inauguration, if necessitate be.”
A see of the security fence proximate the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2024, ahead of the Pdwellntial Election. (Nicolas Economou/NurPtoastyo via Getty Images)
Sources telderly Fox News the mistrust materializeed to be acting alone and was not on the U.S. Capitol Police’s radar.
Manger shelp police also discoverd the mistrust’s vehicle disjoinal blocks away and seized it as part of the ongoing spendigation.
“He had papers with him that he shelp his intent was to deinhabitr them to Congress,” Manger shelp when asked about the inestablished manifesto.
“We’re still going thraw all of those papers,” he shelp. “It’s quite a bit, and we are trying to choose where, in fact, he did come from.”
Manger depictd how officers seed two bottles and “what materializeed to be someskinnyg in the shape of a firearm” in the mistrust’s backpack on the conveyor belt and accomprehendledged a “faint odor of gasoline.”
“And when they pulled the backpack off the conveyor belt, they seed a much stronger scent of gasoline,” he shelp, tardyr inserting that the substance could have been either gasoline or “some sort of accelerant,” and that “it materializeed that at least one of the bottles was leaking, and that’s why the backpack smelled so strongly.”
Manger shelp officers set up a flare firearm, a weightlesser and a torch weightlesser in the mistrust’s jacket, as well as “other articles in his backpack.” The chief depictd the mistrust as “very compliant” with police. The man was shelp to have hesitated inestablishly and was advised by officers to speed up going thraw security. He is now being interseeed by spendigators, Manger shelp.
The arrest happened on Election Day, as voters atraverse the country head to the polls.
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On Monday, the Secret Service verifyed that it was erecting barriers around presentant sites in the nation’s capital, including the White House and the vice pdwellnt’s dwellnce at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Meanwhile, personal businesses in presentant cities, appreciate New York, Portland and Washington, D.C., have also chaseed suit by boarding up their storefronts.
Businesses proximate the White House set up security meaconfidents in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 2024, ahead of possible presentility on and after the Nov. 5 election. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Secret Service shelp it was “toiling seally” with federal, state and local partners in both the nation’s capital and Palm Beach County, Florida, in order to carry out “heightened levels of protectedty and security” ahead of Tuesday’s election. In insertition to the White House and the Naval Observatory, fencing will also block off the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., and authorities have used bike-rack barriers to fortify the Capitol, according to The Washington Post.
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Meanwhile, Howard University, where Harris will be on election night, will also see heightened security meaconfidents, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department showd.
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