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Man arrested for jumping White House fence


    Washington, Nov 26 (EFE).- The U.S. Secret Service, which provides security for the president, arrested a man after he jumped the north fence line at the White House on Thursday, CNN reported.

    President Barack Obama was inside the residence celebrating Thanksgiving Day with his family at the time.

    The detainee joins a list of several men who have tried to scale that same section of the White House fence over the past year.

    The most serious incident occurred on Sept. 19, 2014, when an allegedly mentally ill Iraq War veteran, Omar J. Gonzalez, became the first armed intruder in the history of the executive mansion.

    Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, entered the White House and passed by a staircase that leads to the quarters of the first family, who had left the building just minutes earlier.

    A month later, on Oct. 22, 2014, a man scaled the north fence line but was stopped by Secret Service agents before reaching the presidential mansion.

    In April of this year, a 54-year-old man was arrested by the Secret Service after jumping the White House fence with a suspicious package. After he was apprehended, the package was analyzed and found to be harmless.