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Joint Base Andrews placed on lockdown after vehicle drives through security checkpoint; 1 suspect at large
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Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews was positioned on lockdown Sunday after a car – with at the least one armed particular person inside – plowed by way of the safety checkpoint on the base, officers stated.
The car was stopped after the 316th Safety Forces Group deployed limitations on the important gate of the bottom round 9 p.m. Not less than two folks fled the car, and one in every of them was apprehended.
“We are able to affirm that the person who was apprehended had a weapon, however no photographs have been fired,” Joint Base Andrews wrote on Fb.
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The whereabouts of the opposite suspect are unknown presently, the bottom stated, including that there was not an energetic shooter state of affairs. The principle gate remained closed as of Sunday night, the bottom added.
The incident occurred after Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff had simply taken off from the bottom in Marine Two, wrote NPR’s White Home correspondent Scott Detrow on Twitter.
Harris and several other cupboard members had landed on the base following a visit to Selma, Alabama, to mark the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Detrow tweeted.
Marine One with US President Joe Biden and First Woman Jill Biden lands close to Air Power One at Andrews Air Power Base March 2, 2022, in Maryland. (Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photograph by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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The cupboard members are both off the bottom or protected, tweeted Zeke Miller, a White Home reporter from the Related Press.
In the meantime, the White Home pool that traveled with President Biden over the weekend continues to be caught on the base, wrote Los Angeles Instances reporter Nolan D. McCaskill.
Detrow and one other reporter have been in a shuttle van that was being held due to the state of affairs on the base, Detrow wrote.
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“Guards stopped the shuttle reporters take from the terminal,” Detrow added. “They’d rifles out and searched our van.”
A line of automobiles and other people wait to exit a gate at Joint base Andrews throughout a lockdown state of affairs in Maryland, U.S. March 6, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
A soldier who searched Detrow instructed him there was a confirmed armed particular person however that no photographs have been fired.
Regardless of reviews circulating on-line, Park Police weren’t concerned within the incident, Sgt. Thomas Twiname instructed Fox Information.
It is a growing story.