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“I just walked in with the band,” he told the Associated Press. “I was just going in to see the ceremony.”
Duran later claimed he was attempting to save the world from an alien “mist.” He was convicted of attempted assassination and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Pickett, 47, was eventually sent to a Bureau of Prisons psychiatric hospital for treatment.
\"I want my son, and I'm not leaving until my son-in-law is out of jail,\" Timmers reportedly told authorities during the ensuing four-and-a-half hour standoff.
He eventually surrendered peacefully, and later pled guilty to making a false explosive threat. He told the court, however, that he couldn’t “rule out” the possibility that he would do it again, but “the odds of that happening are 800 million billion [sic] to one.”
The pair, who publicly maintained they had been invited to the event, pled the fifth at a congressional hearing examining the breach.
President Obama, whom Ortega, 23, reportedly called “the anti-Christ,” was away at the time.
Ortega fled the scene and was apprehended in a hotel room in Pennsylvania five days later. He eventually pled guilty to firing an assault weapon at the White House and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Authorities agreed to drop an assassination charge as part of a plea deal.
In a manifesto posted online, Reel slammed the Obama administration, saying “Every once in a while, bad people take over. .?.?. And every once in a while, regular people have to get up and say, ‘No.’?”
Reel, who claimed he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
But not all the security snafus at the White House have been so serious. In perhaps the most adorable security breach to date, a 2-year-old squeezed through the bars of the north fence last month, spurring a lockdown and delaying the president’s impending address to the nation.
\"We were going to wait until he learned to talk to question him,” a Secret Service spokesman said,” but in lieu of that he got a timeout and was sent on way with parents.”
ABC's Kirsten Appleton and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
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