{"id":443681,"date":"2026-08-26T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:40:08","slug":"police-arrest-a-california-man-after-finding-a-guillotine-near-the-us-capitol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443681\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest a California man after finding a guillotine near the US Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 United States Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a California man with what they said was a guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol complex.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, shortly after 3 p.m., when the truck he was driving containing the device was illegally parked east of the Capitol grounds, Capitol police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they were investigating why the suspect, who drove from California, had made the trip and why he was transporting it.<\/p>\n<p>A guillotine is an instrument for administering capital punishment by beheading and consists of a heavy blade mounted on a tall wooden frame. It was invented in late-18th Century France and became a symbol of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 United States Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a California man with what they said was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[237,7,9,8,175783,2258,47962],"class_list":["post-443681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arrest","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-guillotine","tag-julian","tag-u-s-capitol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443681","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=443681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}