Security Guard Allegedly Threatened President Obama
October 21, 2009 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Fox News reports that a private security guard at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Barack Obama.
From Fox News
Port Authority spokesman John Kelly says John Breck allowed police to search his Linden home and officers found 43 firearms.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley says the 55-year-old denied making any threats.
Secret Service Investigating Assassination Poll on Facebook
September 28, 2009 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Secret Service agents are investigating a Facebook poll that reportedly asked people whether they thought President Obama should be assassinated. The survey, posted on the social networking site Facebook, over the weekend, was removed immediately after company officials were made aware of its existence.
The secret service say’s it was treating it like any other threat to the US President.
Man With Gun Arrested During Obama Address
September 10, 2009 by national
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U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a Virginia man they say tried to get into a secure area near the Capitol with a gun in his car as the president gave his health care address to Congress. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Thursday that 28-year-old Joshua Bowman of Falls Church, Va., was arrested around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Bowman’sintentions were unclear, police said.
Schneider says Bowman approached a security checkpoint near the Cannon House Office Building in a 4-door Honda Civic and told officers he wanted to park.
People who want to get into the area must have a permit and have their vehicles searched. The timing of the request raised an officer’s suspicion, Schneider said, and Bowman consented to a vehicle search.
Schneider said a shotgun and ammunition were found in Bowman’s trunk. Bowman was charged with having an unregistered firearm and ammunition, she said.
Man Accused of Making Threats Against White House
August 13, 2009 by national
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UPDATE: Suspect in custody A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase that ended in a standoff outside the Federal Building.The man was wanted on various local warrants, says police Sgt. Kevin Lowe. His is also wanted for questioning by the Secret Service as part of a federal inquiry into threats against the White House, says Lowe.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the suspect made a threat but would not give details.
Police have not publicly identified him.
But the Daily Breeze is reporting that the red Volkswagon Beetle is registered to Joe Moshe, a resident in the 8300 block of Creighton Avenue.
Neighbors who did not want to be identified said Moshe “sounds like he could be dangerous,” but he has never caused any significant trouble for them.
“He’s got issues. He doesn’t take his medication, he doesn’t do that well,” a neighbor told the newspaper.
Neighbors told the newspaper that said Secret Service agents in suits and driving government cars appeared on the street Wednesday night.
They tried to speak with Moshe, but he did not answer the door, neighbors said.
Man Arrested Before Obama Event Had Loaded Gun
August 11, 2009 by national
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Police said a man arrested at the scene of President Barack Obama’s visit to the city Tuesday was found to be in possession of an unlicensed loaded gun.
Richard Terry Young, 62, was arrested around 9:40 a.m., hours before Obama’s arrival, and charged with the misdemeanor crimes of criminal trespass and carrying a loaded pistol without a license.
Young was found inside Portsmouth High School, where Obama later in the day held his town hall-style forum. Young was detained by the Secret Service and subsequently arrested by Portsmouth Lt. Corey MacDonald. Young was carrying a pocket knife, police said. A subsequent search of his vehicle, parked on school property, revealed a loaded hand gun, police said.
Police said Young is being investigated by the Secret Service for possible federal crimes resulting from the same series of events.
White House North Lawn Closed – Suspicious Package
June 1, 2009 by national
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The White House North Lawn has finally reopened after more than two hours after a suspicious package thrown over the fence prompted the closure — and a huge response from four fire trucks and numerous Secret Service. In order to get back in, reporters were walked along a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office. We learned that the president has a lot of large photos of himself along the walls.
After the president’s short speech, reporters were forced to remain in the Grand Foyer for the last 10 minutes. No word on when we might be allowed to leave. Your correspondent took the time to do a brief radio interview — and later talked to WDET while walking back from lunch.
Earlier, the Secret Service forced reporters off the White Hosue driveway and into the press room over an suspicious package found near the White House fence. Some reporters were forced to go through another entrance into the building, while our trip into the Grand Foyer for the president’s speech on General Motors Corp.’s bankruptcy filing was delayed by 15 minutes.
Not clear what it is, but this typically happens over suspcious packages. The Secret Service also cleared pedestrians off the sidewalk in front of White House.
via DETNEWS | Weblogs | Autos Blog.
Security Tight For Obama Visit To Cairo
US president Barack Obama has not yet decided whether his historic speech reaching out to the Muslim world will be delivered on June 4 from a lecture hall at Al Azhar University in Cairo or its main mosque. If the second, his address will take place in the presence of Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the Sunni Muslim world’s greatest religious authority. In any event, Al Azhar is the most eminent school of Islamic learning in the world and the US president therefore expects its impact to far outweigh his first address to Muslims from Istanbul.
His arrival from a meeting with Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on June 3 is planned to add extra weight to Obama’s dramatic outreach to Muslims, since the king officiates as Custodian of the Holy Places to Islam.
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Giant transports have been landing at Cairo airport, unloading a fleet of armored vehicles, White House helicopters, counter-terror weapons and the vanguard of the 3,000 Secret Service officers backed by CIA and FBI personnel who will secure the US president during his stay in Egypt. Cairo will soon be in turmoil as forces are deployed from a command center at the American Embassy to control sections of downtown Cairo, with guard posts on the Nile River’s banks, the international airport, main railway terminals and approaches to the city.
Some 30,000 Egyptian security personnel including army units stationed in Cairo have been placed on special duty until the American president leaves. Their names and those of the welcoming party at Al Azhar University were submitted to the US presidential security center.
Obama is due to land in Cairo Thursday at 10 a.m., drive to the Abidin Palace to meet President Hosni Mubarak and proceed from there to Azhar University. His convoy will be escorted by vehicles equipped with sensors for detecting firearms and explosives and covered by Marine helicopters overhead.
Until the last minute, the president’s routes to the university have been withheld from Egyptian security authorities as a safeguard against leaks to hostile elements.
