Greatly armed man arrested at US security checkpoint
A heavily armed man possesses been arrested in Washington at a protection checkpoint near the US Capitol, where President-elect Joe Biden will come to be inaugurated in a few days, authorities stated. Wesley Allen Beeler, of Virginia, was used into custody after police determined him with a handgun and a lot more than 500 rounds of ammunition, shotgun shells and a magazine for the gun, relating to a police report received by AFP. He had tried to pass through the checkpoint using false inaugural credentials, CNN reported, citing a police source. Washington is usually under a higher state of alert ahead of Biden's Wednesday inauguration, after a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6.
Five people died on the assault, including a officer.
Security officials experience warned that armed pro-Trump extremists, possibly carrying explosives, pose a good threat to Washington as well as state capitals over the coming week.
Thousands of National Safeguard troops have already been deployed in Washington and streets have been blocked off downtown with concrete barriers.
The National Mall, which is normally packed with persons every four years for presidential inaugurations, has been declared off-limits at the request of the trick Service, which ensures the security of the president.
