Not far from the White House, less than 20 minutes after President Donald Trump took off on Marine One, a man at a nearby park approached a U.S. Secret Service agent claiming to have “dropped explosives” in the vicinity.
The man approached a “Uniformed Division Officer on patrol along the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue near Lafayette Park” at approximately 9:24 a.m., according to a Secret Service statement on the event. He told the officer that he had dropped explosives and was immediately taken into custody.
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Thirty-three-year-old Ervin Pettaway has been charged with one count of felony threats. The Washington, D.C. man was “transported to MPD Second District for further processing.”
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