WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents here and in Virginia this summer twice interviewed an Army veteran accused of climbing over a White House fence during the weekend and running into the executive mansion in the two months before the security breach, a federal law enforcement official said Tuesday.
In both cases, the official said, the Secret Service concluded there was no evidence that Omar Gonzalez was a security threat.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of an ongoing investigation, said agents interviewed Gonzalez after he was arrested during a traffic stop in Virginia in July. State troopers there said Gonzalez had an illegal sawed-off shotgun and a map of Washington tucked inside a Bible with a circle around the White House. The troopers seized other weapons and ammunition found during a search of Gonzalez’s car after his arrest. Agents in Washington spoke to him again in late August after Gonzalez was found near a White House fence with a hatchet in his waistband.The Associated Press
