Shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the base, security personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland arrested one man with a weapon on Sunday night while another is absconding, according to a news release.
The security personnel put up barriers to stop the vehicle of the intruders who arrived at around 9 pm. Failed to comply with orders at the main gate of ET and Base, the release said. No shots were fired.
Harris arrived at the base at 8:47 pm. ET Via Air Force Two, following a trip to Selma, Alabama to mark the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, as Poole reports.
The motive behind the incident was not immediately clear.
Vice President and second gentleman Doug Emhoff were both in Marine Two at about 8:51. According to the pool report, ET left the base around 9 pm based on the pool report. ET. Harris's office told Poole that his staff and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, all of whom were traveling with Harris, were safely. were off base. , according to a pool report at around 10 p.m.
President Joe Biden traveled directly to the White House via Marine One after spending the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware.
The TV pool that Biden was traveling with landed separately at Joint Base Andrews and saw people searching a wooded area with flashlights and several police cars traveling at high speed.
By about 10 p.m., the pool traveler with Biden had ejected safely from the base. ET. The pool that Harris had traveled with was also off base as of 11:55 p.m. ET.