Man arrested for attempting to scale fence at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership, Secret Service says
Police in Florida arrested a person who allegedly climbed a fence and tried to enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership early Tuesday, the Secret Service mentioned.
The alleged intruder — described solely as an grownup male — “scaled a fringe fence and triggered alarms” shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a Secret Service spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to CBS Information. He was detained by the Secret Service “with out incident” earlier than native police in Palm Seashore took him into custody and charged him with trespassing, in line with the spokesperson.
The arrested man allegedly advised native police he hoped to talk with Mr. Trump about “the gospel” and wished to marry his 18-year-old granddaughter, in line with an arrest report obtained by the Palm Seashore Each day Information. CBS Information has reached out to the Palm Seashore Police Division.
Mr. Trump was in Washington in the course of the incident. “No Secret Service protectees have been current on the time of this incident,” in line with the company.
It is not the primary time that Mar-a-Lago has confronted safety incidents. A person allegedly tried to enter the property repeatedly final yr, each earlier than and after the election, and two totally different individuals have been arrested for trespassing throughout Mr. Trump’s first time period in 2019.
And Ryan Routh was charged final yr with attempting to kill Mr. Trump at his golf membership in West Palm Seashore, a couple of miles from Mar-a-Lago. Authorities say Routh — who has pleaded not responsible — aimed a rifle by the bushes on the fringe of the property, however fled after he was noticed by the Secret Service. That was the second try on Mr. Trump’s life final yr.
