{"id":2385700,"date":"2025-01-02T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-arrested-for-driving-over-grassy-area-near-capitol\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:10:32","slug":"driver-arrested-for-driving-over-grassy-area-near-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/driver-arrested-for-driving-over-grassy-area-near-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested for driving over grassy area near Capitol"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdriver-arrested-for-driving-over-grassy-area-near-capitol%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=2385700&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat\/\" title=\"Florida housing initiative halts due to training homeless on squatting practices\">provided text\u200c appears<\/a> to be a mix of HTML\u2062 code and XML \u200bdeclarations related to a web page&#8217;s functionality. 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Metropolitan Police Department embraced a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">heightened security posture&#038;rdquo<\/a>; city-wide in light of the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas, Nevada and New Orleans, Louisiana the day before. According to the department, there is no active threat in the nation&rsquo;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 10 a.m., the vehicle was seen traveling from Third Street NW and Constitution Avenue to park on the grass. Officers closed down five nearby streets, searched the vehicle, arrested the driver, and cleared the roadways again. The suspect, whose name has not been made public, is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bruce-springsteen-jeep-celebrity-spokesman-arrested-for-dwi\/\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen, Jeep Celebrity Spokesman, Arrested For DWI\">reckless driving<\/a> charges.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our bomb squad cleared the car and declared that it is safe,&rdquo; Capitol Police wrote on X. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our bomb squad cleared the car and declared that it is safe. The driver is being arrested for reckless driving. Please continue to avoid the area, while our investigators continue their work. <\/p>\n<p>Roads in the area will re-open shortly. Have a safe day.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitolPolice\/status\/1874858985112940770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This incident happened a day after a terrorist attack in New Orleans, where federal authorities said Shamsud-Din Jabbar subverted a police barricade during the New Year&rsquo;s Day celebration, drove through the crowds, and then shot several more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-scalise-calls-for-candid-answers-for-new-orleans-terrorist-attack-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Steve Scalise calls for \u2018candid answers\u2019 for New Orleans terrorist attack - Washington Examiner\">killing fifteen people<\/a>.&nbsp;Police killed the suspect by returning gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, a man parked a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the glass doors to the Las Vegas Trump Hotel at about 8:40 a.m. local time Wednesday. 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