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WASHINGTON – U.S. Capitol Police arrested two suspects in the early morning hours Sunday after they crashed a car into a Capitol complex barrier and tried to flee the scene armed with a gun. 

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USCP says while on routine patrol Sunday, an officer noticed a white Infiniti Q50 stopped along Massachusetts Avenue, NE, idling at a green traffic light by Union Station around 2:15 a.m.  

Suspecting the driver could be impaired, the officer attempted to make a traffic stop but they refused to stop and sped away. The driver then crashed into a barricade near First Street and D Street, NE, not far from USCP headquarters.

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Two people jumped out of the crashed car and fled on foot. 

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USCP officers chased both suspects down, apprehending one of them in the 100 block of C Street, NE, while the other was captured in the 500 block of Second Street, NE.

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A Glock handgun with a 22-round extended magazine was found on the passenger side seat, near an additional magazine. Another Glock, which had a “Giggle Switch,” —  which could turn the weapon into a machine gun — was found in a flowerbed in the 100 block of C Street, NE.

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