Another White House jumper was apprehended Wednesday night, according to the Secret Service.
The man, identified by the Secret Service as 23 year-old Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, jumped the North fence of the White House just after 7:15 p.m., and was immediately taken into custody by Secret Service officers working with dogs.
Adesanya, who was unarmed when he jumped the fence onto the North Lawn, was taken to a local hospital and charges against him are pending, the Secret Service said. Two Secret Service K-9s were also taken to the veterinarian following the incident.
A white car carrying barking dogs left the White House compound at roughly 8:45 p.m.
President Obama was in the White House residence at the time of the incident but it was not immediately clear whether the rest of the first family was also home.
Wednesday’s intrusion comes at a time of heightened concern about the safety of President Obama and the First Family. Just over a month ago, an intruder was able to cross the North Lawn and make it as far as the East Room before being apprehended by the Secret Service.
That incident, followed by revelations of past security breaches during President Obama’s tenure, became a scandal for the Secret Service and led to the resignation of director Julia Pierson on October 1st.
The White House went into lockdown for at least an hour and forty-five minutes Wednesday night after the fence-jumping incident. The Secret Service shutdown Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the White House to pedestrian traffic and closed down LaFayette Square park across the street from the residence.
After the incident, Secret Service officers set up multiple floodlights shining on the White House lawn, presumably to help aid in any after-action investigation of the incident.
The White House was on high-alert for security breaches and potential acts of terrorism Wednesday after a gunman in Canada shot and gunned down a soldier standing guard at an Ottawa War Memorial and then went to the country’s Parliament and engaged in a shoot-out with police inside its marble hallways.
The two shootings sent the Parliament and parts of Ottawa into lockdown most of Wednesday, which was lifted at night when police said there was no longer a danger to the public.
Canadian authorities identified the gunman as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who was born in 1982. CNN, citing two sources reported that Bibeau converted to Islam and had a history of drug use before he converted.
CNN also reported that Canadian authorities confiscated his passport when they learned he planned to go fight overseas.
Just hours after the attack, Obama spoke by phone with Canadian Prime Minister Harper Wednesday.
“Obviously, we’re all shaken by it,” Obama later told reporters. “But we’re going to do everything we can to make sure we’re standing side by side with Canada during this difficult time.”
