WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was taken into custody on Wednesday after driving his van into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.
The Secret Service said the man crashed into the temporary security barrier just before 6:30 a.m. He was immediately arrested by officers from the Secret Service’s uniformed division, the agency said.
The man, whose identity was not immediately released, was being interviewed by investigators. Criminal charges were pending, the Secret Service said.
A police bomb squad was called to the scene, checked the vehicle and determined it to be safe.
![The lead Jeffrey Epstein investigator in Congress claimed on Tuesday that Donald Trump's Department of Justice failed when it ended a probe into the [sexual] offender's New Mexico ranch. During the President's first term, in 2019, New Mexico state authorities were investigating Epstein's Zorro Ranch, a remote 30,000-square-foot mansion, surrounded by sprawling grasslands . However, Trump's Justice Department took over the case from the local investigators and shut down their investigation. Epstein died that year of what the government claims was a suicide while in his jail cell awaiting his federal [sexual] trafficking trial .](https://citigist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Comer-claims-Trump-DOJ-shut-down-probe-into-Epsteins-Zorro-260x140.jpg)
