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March 3, 1984 – David Mahonski, after previously being warned to stay away from the White House for making threats against the president, was noticed in front of the south grounds of the White House by security agents who then approached him. He pulled a sawed-off shotgun from beneath his coat, and one of the agents shot him in the arm with a ...
An intrusion of the White House occurred on September 19, 2014, when Omar J. Gonzalez, an Iraq War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, jumped over the White House's fence and entered the building's front door, overpowered a security officer, was stopped by another who was off-duty, then later by multiple security officers, and arrested.
President Barack Obama greeting the Salahis in the Blue Room of the White House. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is behind President Obama in the blue turban.. On November 24, 2009, Michaele (/ m ɪ ˈ k ɛ l /) and Tareq Salahi (/ ˈ t ɑːr ɛ k s ɑː ˈ l ɑː h i /), a married couple from Virginia, and Carlos Allen (from the District of Columbia), attended a White House state dinner ...
This unusual breach of White House security was found on July 2 when a uniformed Secret Service officer spotted a small plastic baggie in a storage cubby at the West Executive Avenue entrance on ...
On February 17, 1974, U.S. Army Private First Class Robert Kenneth Preston (1953–2009) [1] took off in a stolen Bell UH-1B Iroquois "Huey" helicopter from Tipton Field, Maryland, and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House in a significant breach of security. Preston had enlisted in the Army to become a helicopter pilot.
When the white powder was found on July 7, 2023, Secret Service agents ordered an evacuation of the White House. At the time, President Biden was at Camp David, according to reports.
U.S. Secret Service has beefed up security at the White House in response to increased concerns about trucker convoys heading to Washington D.C. that are timed to coincide with President Biden’s ...
2021 and 2022 – Former President Donald Trump or his staff allegedly took numerous documents with security classification markings from the White House and held them in unsecure areas of his Florida residence at Mar a Lago, some of which were recovered in an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. [28]