A man was arrested Wednesday, months after he attempted to enter the Pentagon with a nine-inch chef’s knife, according to court documents.
Dylan Sloan of Maryland was carrying the knife in his right hand and a black briefcase in his left about 10:30 p.m. on July 22, Pentagon police said, when he tried walking through a turnstile at a pedestrian bridge by Corridor 3.
A man was arrested Wednesday, months after he attempted to enter the Pentagon with a nine-inch chef’s knife, according to court documents.
Dylan Sloan of Maryland was carrying the knife in his right hand and a black briefcase in his left about 10:30 p.m. on July 22, Pentagon police said, when he tried walking through a turnstile at a pedestrian bridge by Corridor 3.
He passed Pentagon employees who were leaving the premises, but the turnstile didn’t open for him, documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia say. That’s when he allegedly approached a Pentagon police officer in a nearby guard booth and gestured, knife in hand, for the officer to open the turnstile.
The interaction prompted the officer inside to lock the booth and warn other officers, police said, before the building was put on lockdown and a pedestrian bridge was evacuated.
Sloan was held and later questioned by police the next morning, according to court documents. He told a Pentagon Force Protection Agency special agent he received messages to his brain from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth via radio towers.
“He described his frustration with politicians generally and said he intended to cut his own throat in front of the Pentagon with the chef knife found in his possession,” police said in court documents.
On his way to the Pentagon, Sloan stopped at a bar in D.C. and a park in Hyattsville, Maryland, he told police.
Sloan was charged by federal prosecutors with interfering with agency functions and possession of a weapon. No court date has been set.
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