The Metro Transit Police have issued an internal memo alerting officers to be on the lookout for two men who were observed videotaping in Metrorail stations and on trains.
According to the memo, the men were “attempting to videotape inconspicuously, by holding the camera at their side, between their chest and waist.” A rider who took a picture of the men and alerted Metro.
The memo comes after a Ashburn, Va., man was arrested Oct. 27, accused of plotting to bomb a handful of Metro stations in Northern Virginia.
Metro officials said Friday that the standard lookout notice was meant for an internal audience only and was not “meant to be elevated to a public alert level and was not meant to alarm anyone.”
