An Idaho man suspected of firing an assault rifle near the White House was captured Wednesday as federal authorities ramped up their search after finding a bullet hole in the first family’s residence and a spent slug nearby. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, was found and arrested at a motel near Indiana, Pa., shortly after noon after Secret Service agents in Pittsburgh received a tip about the suspect, said Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan.
Ortega was in the custody of Pennsylvania State Police.
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