Police Arrest Man With Handgun, Woman Impersonating Officer Near D.C. Checkpoints

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One of the many security checkpoints in Washington, D.C. ahead of the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday.

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Berry was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license, possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device and unregistered ammunition. He remains in custody as of Sunday early afternoon, police said.

A voicemail message left at a phone number listed for Berry was not immediately returned.

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Security measures continue to be heightened around Washington, D.C. following the Capitol riots.

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And on Saturday, a woman claiming to be a law enforcement officer and part of the presidential Cabinet was stopped at an inauguration checkpoint, where United States Capitol Police say they arrested her for impersonating an officer as well as failing to obey and fleeing from law enforcement.

In an email to NPR, the MPD identified the woman as 63-year-old Linda MaGovern of Stratford, Conn.

MaGovern approached a security checkpoint near Union Station around 8:45 a.m. in her vehicle, according to the police report. She said she was a law enforcement officer and presidential Cabinet member, and «was displaying a round metallic object later identified as a Military Police Challenge Coin.

The report says officers asked MaGovern to put her vehicle in park three times and she complied, but fled northbound when asked for her drivers’ license.

«As the USCP officers questioned the Suspect, she drove off in the vehicle, and again was stopped at 50 Massachusetts Avenue, USCP said in a press release.

Following her arrest, police said MaGovern was transported to the D.C. Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program for evaluation before being processed at USCP Headquarters and taken to the D.C. jail.

Reached by phone, MaGovern’s husband Keith MaGovern declined to comment.

A total of three people have been arrested near security checkpoints, which were set up following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and ahead of Wednesday’s presidential inauguration. On Friday, a truck driver was arrested near the Capitol with a loaded handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.