{"id":443600,"date":"2026-08-26T02:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:02:12","slug":"california-man-arrested-near-us-capitol-with-guillotine-in-truck-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443600\/","title":{"rendered":"California man arrested near US Capitol with guillotine in truck bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/guillotine-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">\u00a035-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California was arrested for having a guillotine in the bed of his truck near the U.S. Capitol. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WASHINGTON &#8211; A California man was taken into custody Tuesday after officers discovered a guillotine in the back of his truck near the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers seized the guillotine in the 100 block of East Capitol Street after spotting the pickup truck, which was illegally parked.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police identified the suspect as 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California. Le was arrested and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to authorities, Le drove across the country from California to Washington, D.C. Investigators are working to determine why he traveled to the District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report is from U.S. Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/us\/dc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/dc-crime\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D.C. Crime<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article \u00a035-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California was arrested for having a guillotine in the bed of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2042,25185,175761,100,1181],"class_list":["post-443600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dc","tag-dc-crime","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}