As President-elect Donald Trump was visiting the U.S. Capitol, police responded to an incident nearby in which a man attempted to set a car on fire. According to the United States Capitol Police, police were alerted to a man trying to set a car on fire near the Grant Memorial on Wednesday.

Twice today our officers stopped a man who could have been a danger to the Capitol Hill community," said U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger. “This vigilance is critical during this time of heightened security.

Police have arrested a man accused of trying to set a car on fire outside the U.S. Capitol, where there is already heightened security for former President Jimmy Carter’s lying in state.