The man, identified as an Iranian national named Masoud Yareioeill Zoleh by his passport, was arrested Friday morning at Bradley Park on the east end of the Flagler Memorial Bridge, according to Palm Beach police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick.
In addition to the knives, machete, and pickax, police, who responded to a call about Zoleh at around 9:30 a.m., found the man to have $22,000 and a car parked at Palm Beach International Airport.
Palm Beach police are conducting an investigation with the help of federal partners. Zoleh has been given a notice to appear in court.
Flagler Memorial Bridge is located about four miles north of the Mar-a-Lago private club, where Trump often spends his weekends during the winter.
The president was at the White House on Friday.
A Palm Beach Daily News photographer saw the man, with camping gear, get arrested by arrested by three Palm Beach Police officers and two plainclothes officers who were said to be from another department. The Palm Beach Post published photos of the arrest.
The arrest comes days after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops in response to the U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Quds Force, outside Baghdad International Airport on Friday
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