{"id":1102029,"date":"2021-12-09T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102029"},"modified":"2021-12-09T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:13:43","slug":"man-arrested-after-gun-found-in-longworth-house-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-arrested-after-gun-found-in-longworth-house-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Gun Found In Longworth House Office Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-arrested-after-gun-found-in-longworth-house-office-building%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.176307007786\">\n<p>A congressional staffer was arrested Thursday morning after bringing a gun into the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Capitol Police announced.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Allsbrooks, a staffer with the House Chief Administrative Office, brought the gun in a bag, Capitol Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscp.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/uscp-arrest-capitol-hill-staffer-carrying-gun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. Officers spotted the gun in a bag passed through an x-ray machine at about 7:40 a.m. as Allsbrooks went through security, and authorities arrested Allsbrooks just four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Allsbrooks, 57, told Capitol Police that he forgot that the gun was in his bag. Capitol Police said that they were charging him for carrying a pistol without a license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case remains under investigation and the Department is looking into what happened before, during and after those four minutes,\u201d Capitol Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.3664596273292\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USCP Arrest Capitol Hill Staffer for Carrying a Gun: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wk9aMpkvdO\">https:\/\/t.co\/wk9aMpkvdO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GaEsILuDNp\">pic.twitter.com\/GaEsILuDNp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitolPolice\/status\/1468943397004226566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Capitol Police sent out an alert about 20 minutes after the gun was first noticed, urging people inside to move to the nearest office and stay away from windows and doors. Nobody was permitted to enter or exit during the lockdown, which lasted several minutes, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/congressional-staffer-with-gun-in-bag-causes-brief-lockdown\/2021\/12\/09\/f84b9952-58fc-11ec-8396-5552bef55c3c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is just the latest security scare since the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Several office buildings on the Hill have been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/27\/capitol-hill-department-of-health-and-human-services-bomb-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evacuated<\/a> in recent months due to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/capitol-police-evacuation-capitol-hill-library-of-congress-bomb-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bomb threats<\/a>, and in April, a Capitol Police officer was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/02\/report-multiple-capitol-police-officers-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed after a car rammed into a barrier<\/a> just outside the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A congressional staffer was arrested Thursday morning after bringing a gun into the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Capitol Police announced.Jeffrey Allsbrooks, a staffer with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}