Secret Service captures unlikely White House intruder: two-year-old boy

‘Curious young visitor’ wriggled through fencing on north side of the building, prompting brief security shutdown

Secret Service agents acted fast on Tuesday to capture a fast-moving White House intruder: a two-year-old boy who wriggled through fencing on the north side of the building, prompting a brief security shutdown.

The Secret Service chief of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, said the “curious young visitor” gained entry “along the … north fence line [and] briefly entered White House grounds.