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Man attempts to fly drone over White House, arrested
Washington, May 15
The US Secret Service
detained a man who was attempting to fly a remote-controlled aerial
device over the fence of White House here on Thursday, media reported on
Friday.
President Barack Obama was not in the White House when
the incident occurred and details of the incident are not available so
far, CNN reported.
Thursday's drone incident is the second of its kind at the White House this year.
On
January 26, US Secret Service found a small drone that crashed on the
White House grounds, but investigation indicated that the device didn't
pose threat to the White House.
The man involved in the January
incident claimed that his drone lost control to a wrong direction to the
White House and he only learned where it had crashed from news report.
The man did not face criminal charge.