SoCal man arrested for parking near US Capitol with a Guillotine in his pickup truck
Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, California, had driven all the way from the Golden State to Washington, DC, before US Capitol Police spotted his pickup illegally parked along the 100 block of East Capitol Street shortly after 3 p.m.
A guillotine was sitting in the truck bed, according to USCP.
Officers seized the device and arrested Le on a charge of carrying a dangerous weapon.
Pictures released by Capitol Police show the guillotine was fully assembled and standing in an upright position in the bed of the pickup truck.
Now investigators are digging into the background of the California man and why he came to the nation’s capital with an execution device in his truck.
This afternoon our officers seized a guillotine, which they spotted in the bed of a pickup truck along the 100 block of East Capitol Street.
You can learn more about the arrest here: https://t.co/JibVXWBj8j pic.twitter.com/orxccDAyZc
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) August 25, 2026
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