by Misty Severi
United States Secret Service officers reportedly arrested an illegal migrant outside the White House on Thursday after he was allegedly found inside a stolen vehicle carrying multiple firearms and threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
The officers approached the suspect Thursday evening after spotting him “acting suspicious in his car while it was parked on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.,” the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News.
The DOJ said Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos is an illegal migrant from Venezuela.
He has been charged with carrying a rifle outside of a home or business, three counts of unlawful transportation of a firearm, three counts of unregistered firearms, three counts of unregistered ammunition, possession of certain dangerous weapons, carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft, and receiving stolen property, the DOJ said.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the foreign national was found with “three firearms in his vehicle ” and was “arrested near the White House before he could harm anyone.”
“On top of threatening President Trump, he is an illegal alien from Venezuela who had no business being in our country in the first place. This is just an example of the incredible work done by the men and women of the Secret Service every single day as they put their lives on the line to protect our nation’s leaders. It’s an honor to work alongside Director Sean Curran and all of the patriots at the U.S. Secret Service,” he added.
U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran said the incident “reflects the heightened threat environment in which we operate, as well as the continued number of armed individuals who are drawn to the White House complex.”
“While our personnel are trained to respond to situations like this and we remain confident in our tactics, we are alarmed by the increase in threat cases that continue to arise. The Secret Service will continue expanding our focus on proactively investigating and identifying individuals who make threats to our protectees, in order to disrupt threats before they arrive in Washington,” Curran noted.
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Misty Severi is a reporter for Just the News. Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network and contributed to this story.
