WASHINGTON (7News) — A Massachusetts man stopped shortly after taking a tour on the U.S. Capitol grounds Tuesday was found with a gun in his waistband and had been experiencing mental health issues, according to U.S. Capitol Police (USCP).
A man was discovered to be carrying a gun after attending a tour of the U.S. Capitol and leaving the nearby Library of Congress.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday on gun charges after he was found with a pistol in his waistband soon after touring the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C., police said.
Massachusetts will pay the federal government $2.1 billion of the $2.5 billion it misspent under former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration. Gov. Maura Healey’s (D-MA) administration announced Monday that the state reached a settlement with former President Joe Biden’s administration last Friday to pay back most of what it misspent to pay jobless claims.
The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police found the man in a Washington hotel early Tuesday morning and interviewed him, sources said. They searched for a gun and found no weapon and no further action was taken at that time, they said.
The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department originally spoke to the man in a hotel on Tuesday morning. ABC reports they were responding to an alert from the Carlisle Police Department about a man with a gun who had expressed suicidal ideations on social media and was headed to Washington.
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