A California man drove to Washington, D.C., with a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck before an illegal parking job caught the attention of U.S. Capitol Police.<\/p>\n
Officers noticed the truck shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday along the 100 block of East Capitol Street, according to a U.S. Capitol Police press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n There was a guillotine sitting in the truck bed.<\/p>\n Police arrested the driver, identified as 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n Long Haul<\/p>\n Embedded media follows; please allow a moment to load.<\/p>\n The Capitol Police post<\/a> included photographs of the pickup and the device officers seized.<\/p>\n One photograph shows a tall wooden structure standing upright in the pickup bed, with its frame extending well above the truck’s cab.<\/p>\n Le had driven to Washington from California, police said.<\/p>\n That leaves considerably more distance explained than motive.<\/p>\n Still Looking<\/p>\n Capitol Police said they were going through Le’s backpack and investigating why he came to Washington.<\/p>\n Police were also working to determine why he was transporting the guillotine.<\/p>\n The agency did not announce that Le had threatened anyone or identify a political target in its release Tuesday. The stated charge stemmed from possession of the guillotine, which Capitol Police classified as a dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n The investigation remained ongoing Tuesday night.<\/p>\n If you want more stories like this, follow Guessing Headlights<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California man drove to Washington, D.C., with a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,94741,175938,2258,31406,175939],"class_list":["post-443960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-capitol-police","tag-east-capitol-street","tag-julian","tag-pickup-truck","tag-us-capital-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443960","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=443960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}