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Police arrest man ‘driving along the sidewalk’ near US Capitol

A man is in U.S. Capitol Police custody after he was seen driving on the sidewalk just west of the Capitol on Thursday morning, authorities say. A suspicious vehicle investigation is ongoing. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-in-custody-after-driving-on-sidewalk-near-us-capitol/3803527/ U.S. Capitol Police officers âspotted a car that had been driving along the sidewalk, near Peace Circle, and into the grassy area near Third Street, NW, & Constitution Avenueâ at about 10 a.m., the department said in a statement. Officers took the driver into custody. News4 video shows a large police presence and someone being taken into Capitol police custody. Roads nearby are closed, and people are asked to avoid the area as an investigation into the suspicious vehicle continues. The investigation comes after D.C. tightened security in the wake of the New Orleans truck attack a day earlier and before the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of former President Donald Trump.

Capitol police officers took the suspicious man into custody in a grassy area after he drove his vehicle “near Peace Circle, and into the grassy area near Third Street, NW, and Constitution Ave,” according to a press release.

The erratic behavior comes after the ISIS-inspired act of terror by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Army vet and US citizen, who ran over more than a dozen people celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in another apparent terror attack, killing only its driver.

The Washington, DC, Metro Police Department announced in the wake of the shocking incidents that it was heightening security measures in the nation’s capital.

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