Posted on 03/11/2017 9:24:32 PM PST by justlittleoleme
“I am a friend of the President. I have an appointment.”
These were the words a California man said to a U.S. Secret Service officer after jumping a fence and entering restricted White House grounds late Friday night, according to charging documents filed in filed in U.S. District Court.
The man, who police identified as 26-year-old Jonathan Tuan-Anh Tran of Milpitas, California, was discovered in the restricted area of the White House when an officer approached him to ask him whether he was a pass-holder, police and court records said.
That’s when Tran replied that he did not have a pass and that he had an appointment with the President and had jumped the fence, the report said. Webster then verified through the White House Joint Operations Center that Tran did not actually have an appointment and placed him under arrest.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said Tran was charged with entering or remaining on restricted grounds while using or carrying a dangerous weapon. A bond hearing in federal court is scheduled for Monday.
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i wonder what the weapon was. too lazy to open article :)
i wonder how many SS guys are on WH grounds.
And God forbid someone gets in the door, there’s gotta be a bunch of SS guys inside, no?
But then, I thought the pentagon had a dozen defenses against an attack...
If that is him, he seems more social & friendly than schizophrenic people I have known.
2 cans of mace
Two cans of Mace.
Brian Tran, the suspect’s 19-year-old brother, told CNN that the suspect had graduated from San Jose State University with an engineering degree and had recently been laid off from an engineering job. Brian, who attends San Jose State, told CNN that his brother was “troubled” over losing the job and had been “living in his car and eating junk food.”
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/11/former-san-jose-state-student-said-to-scale-white-house-fence/
If so, very gay.
I bet the guy was looking for a suicide by cop exit. If you’re going to go out, go out in flames!
If that is him, he seems more social & friendly than schizophrenic people I have known.
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Known a lot of democrats, have you?
This loon got all the way from the perimeter fence to the residence before anyone saw him?
Incompetence!
Thanks.
2 cans of mace against the SS.
Must be one of the long range mace guns with a scope :)
We can only hope. The loon managed to hop the fence and walk all the way to the residence before anyone challenged him.
WTH?!?!
I fear that the desire to show how we are an open and free country by having such easy access to the gates of the WH is VERY bad business.
It should be near impossible to jump the fence!!
I don’t get it at all.
Hollywood actors’ homes have more security around their gates.
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ah, the Twinkie defense!
He may be a lunatic but at least now I know when GOT is coming back.
:D
Should be. I remember that Zero had the whole fence rebuilt two feet taller, which should make it impossible to jump, but I suppose a little dedication and ingenuity is all it takes to defeat it.
What angers me, is that no one spotted this guy until he was already at the residence. He could have pushed the plunger on a backpack full of C4 by that time.
Right, why was the SS asleep? Unbelieveable carelessness!
unemployed engineering grad ?
living out of his car ?
Asian ( Vietnamese in this case ) Engineering Grads from SF state make 60-75k straight out of school and are rarely unemployed.
Something odd here
So much for that new improved fence Obama had installed.
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