Official: Man scaled White House fence, arrested
Source: AP-USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) The Secret Service says a man has been arrested after he climbed over a fence at the White House.
Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary says the man climbed over the fence around 4 p.m. Sunday and was immediately arrested. The White House briefly went into lockdown after the incident, which is standard procedure.
The Secret Service did not immediately release the identity of the man, and Leary said charges were pending.
Obama returned to Washington on Saturday after a weeklong trip abroad.
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)The people's house? He was probably just drunk. Glad to see Security was on the situation so quickly and President Obama or his family were not harmed.