{"id":1502745,"date":"2022-06-03T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502745"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:34:19","slug":"police-arrest-man-outside-u-s-capitol-wearing-body-armor-carrying-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-arrest-man-outside-u-s-capitol-wearing-body-armor-carrying-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Man Outside U.S. Capitol Wearing Body Armor, Carrying Ammunition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fpolice-arrest-man-outside-u-s-capitol-wearing-body-armor-carrying-ammunition%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=1502745&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--><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said Friday they had arrested a Michigan man wearing body armor and carrying ammunition outside the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found the man wearing a fake badge, carrying a BB gun, wearing body armor, and carrying several magazines, the Capitol Police said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Felipe, the 53-year-old suspect, is a retired New York police officer from Flint, Michigan. Police say he showed USCP officers a fake badge with \u201cDepartment of the INTERPOL\u201d printed on it.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from the police force in 2018, the\u00a0NYPD office of the deputy commissioner of public information confirmed Friday. \u201cWe are fully cooperating with the US Capitol Police investigation. For any additional questions please be referred to the US Capitol Police,\u201d said NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger on the west side of the Capitol, police said, and claimed to be a criminal investigator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFelipe gave officers permission to search his vehicle,\u201d said USCP. \u201cThe officers discovered a BB gun, two ballistic vests, several high capacity magazines, and other ammunition in the car. No real guns were found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately clear what Felipe was doing parked near the Capitol, and police said that he is \u201cfacing charges for Unlawful Possession of High Capacity Magazines and Unregistered Ammo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USCP, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, is responsible for guarding the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The force came under severe scrutiny following the January 6 Capitol Riot, and Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/05\/capitol-police-officers-left-since-jan-6\/9104403002\/\">said in January<\/a> that\u00a0153 officers had either resigned or retired in the year after the riot.<\/p>\n<p>Manger told the Rules and Administration Committee in January that the force was short 447 of its authorized strength. He said his goal was to hire 280 officers a year for the next three years to make up for the departures and the stress upon officers who have served the force in the wake of the riot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cIt will be a challenge hiring that many officers,\u201d Manger said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/05\/capitol-police-officers-left-since-jan-6\/9104403002\/\">according to USA Today<\/a>. \u201cThe real challenge is to make sure you\u2019re hiring the right officers, that we\u2019re hiring good quality candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, the USCP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/capitol-police-order-immediate-evacuation-of-capitol-complex-amid-aircraft-threat\">temporarily evacuated<\/a> the U.S. Capitol over a \u201cprobable threat\u201d that turned out to be a plane carrying members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights to parachute into a Washington Nationals game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex,\u201d the Capitol Police reportedly\u00a0said in an alert\u00a0sent to congressional staffers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, the Capitol Police announced that the Capitol \u201cwas evacuated out of an abundance of caution this evening,\u201d noting that \u201cthere is no threat at the Capitol,\u201d and promising that more details were to come.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Capitol was evacuated out of an abundance of caution this evening. <\/p>\n<p>There is no threat at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>More details to come. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7qqxqQyzlD\">pic.twitter.com\/7qqxqQyzlD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitolPolice\/status\/1516911625709801472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said Friday they had arrested a Michigan man wearing body armor and carrying ammunition outside the Capitol. Authorities found the man wearing a fake badge, carrying a BB gun, wearing body armor, and carrying several magazines, the Capitol Police said in a press release. Jerome Felipe, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1502792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502745","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\/1502745","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\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}