Secret Service outside the White House (Getty Images)

A man who accidentally followed a presidential motorcade carrying the Obama daughters onto White House grounds in May won’t be prosecuted, the Post reports.

Fifty-five-year-old Mathew Goldstein was arrested when he followed a presidential motorcade into the “secure perimeter of the compound” on May 6, the Secret Service says. The incident caused the White House to go into lockdown for more than an hour and Goldstein was promptly arrested and charged with an unlawful entry misdemeanor.

Goldstein was scheduled to appear in a D.C. Superior Court tomorrow, but prosecutors dropped the charges after learning that Goldstein somehow eluded two rows of security posts to get onto White House grounds—just five feet behind a vehicle carrying Sasha and Malia Obama—by accident.

From the Post:

Goldstein’s attorney, Thomas Hartnett, said his client, an IT specialist who works for the Internal Revenue Service, made a mistake and was not familiar with the roads around the White House. Hartnett said he was “very happy” prosecutors dismissed the case. U.S. Attorney spokesman Bill Miller said his office dropped the charges “after further investigation and a review of the evidence.”