{"id":5378,"date":"2026-08-28T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:12:30","slug":"capitol-police-arrest-man-with-fully-working-guillotine-outside-capitol-and-supreme-court-and-say-motive-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police arrest man with fully working guillotine outside Capitol and Supreme Court — and say motive unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you really need a dead body in this age of assassinations to know that something dangerous was going on when\u00a0the Capitol police seized\u00a0a fully working guillotine on the truckbed of a man who drove\u00a0cross country to plant it in front of the Capitol and the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n

Read more An accused killer who randomly hacked a stranger to death dies in custody, and Zohran Mamdani dons black and brings out the weeping wagon<\/a><\/p>\n

According to The Hill:<\/p>\n

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The man who was arrested Tuesday for driving with a guillotine near the U.S. Capitol told police officers the weapon was \u201cthe real deal,\u201d according to his arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n

The affidavit, filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, said U.S. Capitol Police officers Sergei Vittone, Ryerson Hill and Joseph Diaz observed a black Toyota Tacoma illegally parked on the south side of unit block East Capitol Street SE.<\/p>\n

The truck was parked in a Library of Congress permit parking only spot, per the affidavit, with the Capitol Police noting in a Tuesday statement the vehicle was near the Capitol, the Supreme Court and the library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the back of the truck was a wooden platform with an approximately 10 ft tall wooden guillotine with what appeared to be a metal blade,\u201d read the affidavit, which Vittone signed Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Hill asked the man, identified as 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le, if the guillotine was fully functioning, he replied, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s the real deal man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Interesting that he was only detected because he was illegally parked — the guillotine problem was seemingly noticed after<\/em> the parking ticket. The Capitol Police have their priorities.<\/p>\n

The long-haired 35-year old tattoo artist who worked in Julian, a rightwing “Old West” mountain town 60 miles outside San Diego, as a guest artist at the Berserker Tattoo Studio, until its owner reportedly let him go for alleged drug use, apparently lived in wealthy, coastal, mostly leftwing, Carlsbad, too. (A Jan. 6. protestor given a heavy sentence was from Carlsbad, too.)<\/p>\n

Le\u00a0said he built the 20-foot execution instrument\u00a0himself and didn’t have ‘any specific reason’ for why he came to Washington to display it in an illegal parking place outside the Capitol and the Supreme Court, which sounds\u00a0pretty\u00a0skeevy. He added\u00a0that he ‘didn’t have any issue’ with any member of Congress.<\/p>\n