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Updated on 16 March 2007

Source PA News

The US Secret Service on Friday have apprehended a 66-year-old man who scaled a White House fence with a package that was later destroyed with a water cannon.

The incident prompted a security lock down on the White House compound for more than three hours.

Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren identified the man as Catalino Lucas Diaz, possibly from Florida, was in custody pending charges.

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