{"id":443975,"date":"2026-08-26T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:26:10","slug":"california-man-with-guillotine-arrested-near-us-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443975\/","title":{"rendered":"California man with guillotine arrested near US Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest California man after finding a guillotine near the US Capitol<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/056e7e21-e408-46df-8166-4d7c483923b8_1546533418.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Associated Press\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">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 data-node-id=\"1\">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 data-node-id=\"2\">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 data-node-id=\"3\">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":"Police arrest California man after finding a guillotine near the US Capitol WASHINGTON \u2014 United States Capitol Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[237,175949,175950,7,9,34230,8,73563,175945,94741,175951,175946,175783,175952,175947,175948,31406,1387,12885,2131,175953,6187,47962,10978],"class_list":["post-443975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arrest","tag-bed-of-truck","tag-beheading","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-man","tag-california-news","tag-capital-punishment","tag-capitol-complex","tag-capitol-police","tag-federal-grounds","tag-french-revolution","tag-guillotine","tag-illegal-parking","tag-julian-california","tag-philan-tam-duy-le","tag-pickup-truck","tag-police-investigation","tag-shnd","tag-suspect","tag-transported","tag-truck","tag-u-s-capitol","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443975","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=443975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}