{"id":826882,"date":"2026-08-26T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:08:15","slug":"us-capitol-police-arrest-california-man-with-guillotine-in-truckbed-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826882\/","title":{"rendered":"US Capitol police arrest California man with guillotine in truckbed | Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Capitol police arrested a California man on Tuesday afternoon after observing a wooden guillotine<\/a> in the bed of a pickup truck.<\/p>\n

Federal authorities seized the antiquated decapitation device, which historically was used for executions in France and other European countries. The truck had been parked illegally next to the supreme court building, Capitol police said in a press release<\/a>, which is located near the US Capitol and the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

Capitol police also released photos<\/a> of the large guillotine in the truck bed.<\/p>\n

Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, who drove from California to Washington DC<\/a>, faces a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon. It remains unclear why he allegedly had the guillotine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019d hurt anyone,\u201d his brother<\/a> Kelvin Le told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Le lacked partisan allegiances, but was unhappy with the state of politics, the LA Times reported. Kelvin Le said the guillotine may have been intended as a \u201csymbol of disapproval\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kelvin Le described his brother as a free spirit, who is skilled in handcraft and enjoys taking road trips.<\/p>\n

Le had resided in Julian, a mountain town 60 miles (97km) north east of San Diego.<\/p>\n

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An investigation into Le\u2019s background and his reasons for traveling to Washington is under way, according to Capitol police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Capitol police arrested a California man on Tuesday afternoon after observing a wooden guillotine in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-826882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}