SECRET SERVICE CRITICISED AFTER WHITE HOUSE INTRUDER PROMPTS EVACUATION (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, September 20, 2014, 11:10

US secret service officers in front of the main entrance on the north side of the White House. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

An intruder who sparked an evacuation of the White House managed to get inside after jumping over the fence just minutes after President Obama had left, the US secret service said on Saturday.

The incident on Friday may have been the first time a fence-jumper has made it inside the US president's official residence, and it prompted fresh criticism of the secret service.

After scaling the fence on the north side of the White House, the intruder ran toward the building, ignoring calls from secret service agents to stop, spokesman Ed Donovan said. The 42-year-old man was apprehended just inside the north portico doors – the grand entrance that looks out over Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

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