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Just a day after the Federal Aviation Administration launched its “No Drone Zone” awareness effort for the D.C. area, a man was arrested for … doing just that.

CNN reports that the Secret Service has detained a man who, according to witnesses, was “trying to fly some sort of remote-controlled aerial device over the White House fence.”

Secret Service was called to the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. and the man was detained in Lafayette Park, on the north side of the White House. Both the park and the White House were briefly placed on lockdown.

A request for more information from the Secret Service has yet to be returned.

This is the second drone incident near the White House this year. Earlier this year, a man who may or may not have been inebriated, crashed his friend’s drone on the lawn of the White House around 3 a.m.

At any rate, the FAA would really like to remind you that D.C. is a #NoDroneZone.

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