Police arrested a man “driving along the sidewalk” near the US Capitol before 10 a.m. on Thursday, one day after a driver mowed down New Year’s Eve revelers in a terror attack that left 15 dead in New Orleans.
Capitol police officers took the suspicious man into custody in a grassy area after he drove his vehicle “near Peace Circle, and into the grassy area near Third Street, NW, and Constitution Ave,” according to a press release.
The erratic behavior comes after the ISIS-inspired act of terror by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Army vet and US citizen, who ran over more than a dozen people celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in another apparent terror attack, killing only its driver.
The Washington, DC, Metro Police Department announced in the wake of the shocking incidents that it was heightening security measures in the nation’s capital.
