SECRET SERVICE: “A man dressed as the Pokémon character Pikachu attempted to infiltrate the White House Tuesday [10-17-17] morning before he was caught by Secret Service officers manning the perimeter, authorities said.
Curtis Combs, 36, of Somerset, Kentucky, jumped a concrete barrier on the outer perimeter of the south grounds of the White House complex and was quickly arrested, according to a police report released Wednesday night.
President Donald Trump was nearby in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building doing radio interviews at the time of the breach.
According to the police report, Combs told officers he was unarmed before climbing the fence and ignoring signs that marked the area as restricted. He ignored multiple commands to stop climbing.
Before scaling the fence, Combs dropped a backpack which was investigated by bomb technicians before eventually getting cleared by police. Combs was not known to law enforcement, court documents say.
Combs told Secret Service agents he wanted to be famous and hoped to accomplish that by jumping the White House fence in a Pikachu outfit and posting it to YouTube. He told investigators he could not complete a video recording because of the officers’ ‘quick response’ according to court documents.”
-Noah Gray, “Gotta catch ’em all: Secret Service nabs Pikachu-dressed man at WH,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Oct. 19, 2017 09:11am