A Washington, DC man was detained Wednesday after he allegedly tried to slip a machete and three knives into the US Capitol Visitor Center hours before President-elect Donald Trump was due to arrive.

Additionally, there are bike racks outside the Capital Visitor Center and Capital Bikeshare stations nearby. For more information, check out the official U.S. Capitol Visitor Center website.

U.S. Capitol police said officers spotted the machete in the man's bag as it went through the X-ray machine, and found three knives in the bag. The man, who was not immediately named by police ...

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(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The man arrested after trying to enter the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., while smelling like fuel this afternoon was trying to deliver papers to ...

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TASS/. A man, earlier arrested by the US Capitol Police while trying to enter the Capitol Visitor Center with a flare gun and a torch, also carried two bottles of accelerant in his backpack ...