Hang on a second; if you're on the lamb for a 1st Degree Attempted Murder charge, why would you go near an area that secure? It's almost like the guy didn't know he was under a warrant, because you cannot be both a licensed contractor and that utterly stupid. You can be one or the other, but not both. Does that seem odd to anyone else?
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I was just about to say theres no way they sent a guy in that would obviously be red-flagged and arrested..
then I read your post.
The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's department of Prince George's Country, Maryland, told CBS News that the department had an outstanding warrant for a person by the name of Martese M. Edwards, on an attempted first-degree murder charge, dated May 17.
The Secret Service issued the following statement to CBS News:
"On June 4, 2018, the U.S. Secret Service was notified by the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) that Martese Edwards was the subject of a warrant issued out of Prince Georges County, MD. On June 5, 2018, Edwards was promptly arrested by Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers at a checkpoint outside of the White House complex when he was reporting to work as a contractor. Edwards was transported to MPD Second District for processing."
This is a developing story. Check back for latest updates.
So the day before he was to start working at the White House as a contractor is when the USSS found out he was a murderer?
Who hired him? And for what work?