Press TVA man was arrested Wednesday with a hunting rifle and ammunition in his car outside the White House, Washington.
41-year-old R.J. Kapheim was arrested by Secret Service agents after the officers found a rifle and ammunition in his car in the vicinity of the White House.
“Kapheim, from Davenport, Iowa, was arrested after he approached uniformed officers along 15th Street just before 1 p.m. and explained that someone in Iowa told him to drive to the White House. He later showed them to his car, parked nearby, and let officers search the vehicle,” the Associated Press reported.
The agency said officers found the rifle, ammunition and a 6-inch knife in the truck of his 2013 Volkswagen Passat.
Kapheim faces charges of having an unregistered firearm in the District of Columbia.
The incident occurred amid harsh criticism leveled at the US Secret Service over a series of high-profile security lapses and embarrassing blunders.
On September 19, Iraqi war veteran Omar Gonzalez, 42, managed to run pass Secret Service agents and reach the main floor of the White House with a knife.
Another security lapse occurred on September 16, when an armed security contractor with a criminal record was allowed to accompany Obama in an elevator during his trip to Atlanta.
On Wednesday, the acting director of the US Secret Service acknowledged the “devastating” failures that have “severely damaged” the agency.
“I openly acknowledge that a failure of this magnitude, especially in light of other recent incidents, requires immediate action and longer term reform,” Joseph Clancy told the US House of Representative Judiciary Committee.
The embarrassing string of security breaches have put the agency, charged with protecting the president, under increased scrutiny, forcing its director Julia Pierson to resign in October.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/20/386790/man-arrested-with-rifle-near-white-house/
Notice how this story makes no sense. This appears to be a fabrication as PR for the SS…. “We are doing our job as secret service. Look, we just caught this guy with a rifle.”
Yea after he told them where the gun was. Even a dog on a leash gets it right half the time.
sounds like a pile if BS to me
Or maybe I should say
looks like the Gun agenda of this administration
“A man was arrested Wednesday with a hunting rifle and ammunition in his car outside the White House, Washington.
41-year-old R.J. Kapheim was arrested by Secret Service agents after the officers found a rifle and ammunition in his car in the vicinity of the White House.”
Yea, because normal people always leave their hunting rifle and ammunition in front of the White House. 🙄 Tell me another one.
What a load of shit. My former Kindergarten students can write a better story than this AND provide their own colored pictures and drawings to back it up. They call this journalism?
This just more White House insecurity propaganda so they can convince people to for the need to get rid of the Secret Service and hire their Blackwater private mercenary security force to patrol and guard the White House like the terrorists that they are.
Problem-reaction-solution.
The gun control propaganda is also and added bonus in there, too.
How many times in the last month alone has someone been “caught” with a gun around the White House, or entering the Kings palace for that matter?
Is this yet another dog and pony show to make the SS look as though they are worth their salt and doing their job, or is this an excuse to build that moat around White Castle, err I mean the White House?
I have an idea. We the people should build a moat around the 10 square miles that is DC, to keep the demon criminals in. Then and only then will we the people be safe from these many blood sucking creatures, known as politicans.
Hey Deb. how you doing up there?
Hey Paul! I’m doing well. Good to see you! 🙂
Just another new fad. It’ll pass.
Like twerking.
Hey #1, you should see the rifle I’m going deer hunting with tomorrow. It’s an Eastern European bolt action Nato .270 cal. with fixed bayonet just in case.
Happy hunting, Millard. 🙂
Smoke break…