The U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said a man who passed a security checkpoint with a handgun and toured the chamber was arrested and charged.

The case is currently with the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Capitol Police statement said. The officer who performed the screening at the magnetometer at the Capitol Visitor Center "is suspended ...

The 27-year-old had been allowed into the Capitol Visitor Center about an hour prior ... The case is being investigated by the US Attorney’s Office. Strangely, another man with that same name ...

U.S. Capitol police said officers spotted the machete in the man's bag as it went through the X-ray machine, and found three knives in the bag. The man, who was not immediately named by police ...

A former aide to former U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer “bypassed" a security screening yesterday at a congressional office ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... a license and resisting arrest, according to Capitol Police. While entering the visitor center he had set off the metal detectors ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was arrested Wednesday for trying to bring a machete and knives into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, police said. U.S. Capitol police said officers spotted the machete ...