WASHINGTON — The Secret Service and Washington police announced on Twitter on Tuesday that they were investigating a package left near a White House fence. The Secret Service later tweeted that the “unattended package” had been cleared.
@SecretService and @DCPoliceDept have cleared the unattended package near the north fence line of the @WhiteHouse Complex
— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) August 22, 2017
The Secret Service had originally tweeted that, with local law enforcement, they were “responding to an unattended package near the North Fence of the @WhiteHouse Complex.”
In a subsequent tweet, the Secret Service said that pedestrian traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue and in Lafayette Park was “restricted due to law enforcement activity.”
A Secret Service spokesman said no further information was available.
President Donald Trump was not at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. The president was traveling to Arizona for a visit to the border and a rally.
