Illustration by Peter Sharkey.

The man who jumped a White House fence earlier this month was apprehended in the building’s East Room, not near an entrance, the Washington Post reported today.

Omar Jose Gonzalez was allegedly carrying a knife when he jumped the fence and entered the White House through a North Portico door. According to the Post report, an alarm near the front entrance “had been muted at what officers believed was a request of the usher’s office.”

The female officer posted inside the front door appeared to be delayed in learning that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, was about to burst through. Officers are trained that, upon learning of an intruder on the grounds, often through the alarm boxes posted around the property, they must immediately lock the front door.

After barreling past the guard immediately inside the door, Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, dashed past the stairway leading a half-flight up to the first family’s living quarters. He then ran into the 80-foot-long East Room, an ornate space often used for receptions or presidential addresses.

Gonzalez was tackled by a counter-assault agent at the far southern end of the East Room. The intruder reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn with artwork and antique furniture, according to three people familiar with the incident.

It was originally reported, through information provided by officials, that Gonzalez was stopped at the North Portico entrance. The First Family was not at home at the time.

Gonzalez appeared in federal court last week on “one charge of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon” and was ordered to be held for one month. According to prosecutors, 800 rounds of ammunition, two hatchets and a machete were found in Gonzalez’s vehicle, parked nearby.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on the White House perimeter breach.