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Secret Service Arrests Armed Woman Outside White House
In this Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, a member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division looks out from the North Portico of the White House in Washington. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson said Tuesday the front door to the White House now locks automatically in a security breach. Pierson told a House panel that the switch to automatic locks at the White House’s north door was made after an Army veteran jumped the fence on Sept. 19 and made his way into the interior of the building through two unlocked doors. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(USA Today) – Secret Service agents arrested a woman with a gun outside the White House Thursday night shortly after President Obama delivered an address to the nation on immigration, officials said.
April Lenhart, of Mount Morris., Mich., was participating in a demonstration along the White House’s north fence when agents noticed a gun in a holster on her front hip at about 8:28 p.m., Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said in an email.
The 23-year-old woman was immediately taken into custody, Hoback said. She faces charges of possessing an unregistered firearm and unregistered ammunition, and for carrying a pistol without a license.
The president was in the White House at the time.
