OAN Staff Abril Elfi
5:08 PM – Thursday, January 23, 2025
A United States Capitol police officer has reportedly been suspended after a visitor from Massachusetts was able to complete an entire guided tour with a gun strapped on him.
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The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) reported that on January 21st , they received an alert about 27-year-old James A. Faber. Police in Carlisle, Massachusetts, notified authorities in Washington, D.C., saying that a man carrying a firearm who had posted suicidal thoughts on social media was on his way to the area.
They continued, stating that when Faber had walked through the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) checkpoint, the magnetometer screening prompted a security-alert sound — resulting in an officer performing a secondary hand search. However, the officer missed the firearm…
