Man arrested after he threw a razor over a barrier onto White House grounds

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WASHINGTON – A man from Montreal was arrested after he threw a razor blade over a bike rack and barrier Sunday evening and it landed in a restricted area of the White House grounds, authorities said.

Authorities identified the suspect as Jocelyn Deschamps, though his age was not immediately disclosed. He was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon outside a home or business.

An arrest affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court on Monday says a uniformed officer saw a man throw something over the barrier in the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW shortly after 7 p.m.

The affidavit says the man jumped over the barrier to retrieve the item and quickly jumped back. Police said officers found the straight razor in the man’s front right pocket.

Deschamps told police that the razor for was “for shaving and protection.”

The White House has had issues with people trying to jump the fence onto the property.

In November, a Connecticut man draped himself in an American flag and scaled the fence on Thanksgiving Day. He left a suicide note with friends he had been staying with in Virginia.

A judge ordered Joseph A. Caputo, 23, to go for emergency psychiatric evaluation at St. Elizabeths Hospital in that case.

NBC Channel 4 was among the first to report on the most recent incident of the object being thrown over the fence at the White House.

(c) 2016, The Washington Post ยท Dana Hedgpeth

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