Vehicle runs into barrier at Atlanta FBI office, driver is taken into custody
ATLANTA — A man is in custody after he allegedly rammed into a barrier at the FBI's Atlanta field office, an official said.
ATLANTA — A man is in custody after he allegedly rammed into a barrier at the FBI's Atlanta field office, an official said.
The incident happened just after noon on Monday when the driver of a Buick Encore with South Carolina license plates tried to follow an employee's car through a gated entrance, FBI officials said.
The entrance's pop-up wedge barrier engaged, as it does after every vehicle passes through, and the suspect rammed into it, destroying his car, FBI spokesperson Tony Thomas said.
The man then got out of his SUV and tried to run inside past the gate, but he was tackled soon after, FBI officials said.
"Several of our special agents who were passing by apprehended him," said Peter Ellis, the bureau's assistant special agent in charge of the Atlanta office said.
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