Man arrested, accused of jumping barrier near White House and fighting Secret Service agents

The Secret Service on Thursday arrested a man accused of jumping a barrier near the White House before scuffling with agents.

The suspect, who has not been publicly named, and a Secret Service agent sustained minor injuries, the president’s protective agency told Washington’s WUSA-TV.

The Secret Service told another D.C. station, WJLA-TV, that the suspect jumped over a construction series of posts near the Treasury Building on the northeastern side of the White House complex at about 11:30 a.m.

Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told WUSA that “officers encountered the individual near a pedestrian gate, where he engaged in a physical altercation before being taken into custody.”

Mr. Guglielmi told Newsweek that the injured agent specifically suffered a laceration in the exchange and that both injuries were treated. The nature of the suspect’s injury was not specified.

He did not say whether the suspect was armed at the time of the incident. It is not known why the man jumped over the barrier to begin with.