Person in custody, vehicle being checked after driver got to a White House checkpoint and claimed to have a bomb, two law enforcement officials say. Ref. CNN.
Secret Service to extend security perimeter on south side of White House
The Secret Service is enlarging the protective bulwark around the White House complex Wednesday by closing access to the entire fence-line along the mansion's south lawn in the wake of persistent concerns about intrusions. The new plan, outlined by agency officials, would attempt to replicate a buffer zone created on Pennsylvania Avenue, where iron bicycle racks were placed in front of the perimeter fence to provide officers additional time to react to fence jumpers. That action followed a brazen 2014 breach by a disturbed Iraq War veteran who scaled the north lawn fence and burst through the mansion's front door. Ref. USAToday.