WASHINGTON — He threatened to kill three presidents and a first lady, yet he was spotted just steps away from the White House.
Officials are now trying to find out how Archie Glass, an Oklahoma City man fresh off a five-year stint in federal prison, got to the White House despite having travel restrictions and being under the watchful eye of probation officers and mental-health providers.
Glass was stopped by Secret Service agents near the White House on Sunday, after evidently taking a bus from Oklahoma to Washington, NBC Washington reports. He is now in a D.C. jail, accused of leaving Oklahoma without permission.
Glass had written a letter in 2008 to President George W. Bush threatening to kill him and his successor, who would later turn out to be President Barack Obama. He also served time in federal prison for threatening to kill President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton, a 2016 presidential candidate.
Glass has been charged with threatening to assassinate the president in 1996, 2001 and 2002.
In the 1996 case, NBC Washington found that a witness said that Glass wanted to be in the history books like John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Despite the charges, there haven’t been any documented cases of him possessing a weapon or being violent.
Court documents say Glass has a mental health condition, and NBC Washington reported that Glass was being held in an Oklahoma City halfway house since he was released from prison in 2013. However, officials said he was at a private residence when he traveled to Washington.
Glass is not allowed to leave western Oklahoma without court permission. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Oklahoma City Sept. 8 for violating conditions of his probation.
