{"id":74457,"date":"2017-03-15T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/police-say-woman-stole-car-on-parliament-hill-after-trying-to-get-into-centre-block.html"},"modified":"2017-03-15T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:36:14","slug":"police-say-woman-stole-car-on-parliament-hill-after-trying-to-get-into-centre-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/police-say-woman-stole-car-on-parliament-hill-after-trying-to-get-into-centre-block.html","title":{"rendered":"Police say woman stole car on Parliament Hill after trying to get into Centre Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ottawa police have charged a 27-year-old Ottawa woman they say stole a taxi to drive to\u00a0Parliament Hill and\u00a0then stole another vehicle once she was turned away from its entrance by security on\u00a0Monday\u00a0afternoon.<\/p>\n

The woman, who was unarmed, has been charged with two counts of theft of a vehicle and one count of theft under $5,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ottawa police said\u00a0she arrived on Parliament Hill in a stolen taxi around 3:30 p.m., when it was abandoned on Wellington Street in front of the Parliament Buildings.<\/p>\n

The woman proceeded to the entrance of Centre Block and told the guards she was an employee and wanted to go inside, according to Melissa Rusk, a spokesperson for the Parliamentary Protective Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The woman had no supporting identification and was turned away. Police said the woman then jumped into an unoccupied car that was idling nearby and drove that car\u00a0toward\u00a0the exit of the Hill, where she was stopped and arrested by the RCMP.<\/p>\n

‘No public threat’<\/h2>\n

“There was no threat on Parliament Hill, no public threat,” said Ottawa police Const. Chuck Benoit.<\/p>\n

“It’s considered a mental health situation. She will have a mental health assessment.”<\/p>\n

Police said a referral to the mental health court has been made.<\/p>\n

Security has been beefed up on Parliament Hill<\/a> since Michael Zihaf-Bibeau Bibeau, 32, stormed\u00a0Centre Block on Oct.\u00a022, 2014, after abandoning a stolen car near Parliament Hill and shooting Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial. He then stole another\u00a0car on the grounds of Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n

Bibeau was armed with a hunting rifle\u00a0and was gunned down by parliamentary security guards, RCMP officers and then sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers.<\/p>\n

Parliament Hill is quieter than usual this week, as the House of Commons and Senate are on a weeklong break.<\/p>\n

Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/parliament-hill-stolen-car-arrest-1.4026654?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ottawa police have charged a 27-year-old Ottawa woman they say stole a taxi to drive to\u00a0Parliament Hill and\u00a0then stole another vehicle once she was turned away from its entrance by security on\u00a0Monday\u00a0afternoon. The woman, who was unarmed, has been charged with two counts of theft of a vehicle and one count of theft under $5,000.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-74457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}