Man with three guns arrested near White House, DHS says
Secret Service officers arrested a man after finding three guns and dozens of rounds in a reportedly stolen vehicle near the White House, DHS said. No shooting or injuries were reported in its account.
U.S. Secret Service officers arrested a man near the White House after finding three firearms, including a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition in his vehicle, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement released on 6 November.
Officers approached the man while he was parked on Constitution Avenue on Thursday evening, 5 November, in Washington — during the night of 5–6 November in Romania. CBS News, citing a law-enforcement source, placed the incident in the 1600 block of Constitution Avenue NW, near the Ellipse.
DHS identified the suspect as Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos. According to the department, he told officers that he had heard voices telling him to travel to Washington and kill President Donald Trump. That is an allegation attributed to DHS, not an independently established account of an assassination plot.
Officers discovered that the vehicle had been reported stolen and, DHS said, the man admitted that weapons were inside. The department announced firearms, ammunition and vehicle-related charges and said he was in U.S. Marshals Service custody. CBS reported that it was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney. The charges have not been proved in court.
Neither the DHS statement nor the CBS report describes shots being fired or anyone being injured in this incident. They describe an arrest near the White House, not a shooting inside the complex.