A staff member of Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was arrested on Monday by U.S. Capitol Police for carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds without a license, police said on Tuesday, NOTUS has reported.

Kevin Batts, a special assistant for the New Jersey Democrat, was arrested at the Capitol after he did not go through security, according to police

“Yesterday afternoon, a member of Congress led an IDed staff member around security screening at the Hart Senate Office Building,” Capitol Police said in a statement on Tuesday. “Later that evening, outside the Senate Galleries, the IDed staff member — who is a retired law enforcement officer — told our officers he was armed.”

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