Court documents: Man charged after barricade incident at CIA headquarters

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. ( DC News Now ) — Court documents revealed that a man who may have been experiencing a mental health crisis was charged for his involvement in a barricade situation that happened at the CIA headquarters in McLean on Wednesday.

In an affidavit filed Thursday, a CIA police officer said he was on patrol near the headquarters just before 9:45 a.m. when he received a call about a man with a gun near Route 123, just outside the headquarters’s main gate.

He found the man sitting on a bench, holding a gun pointed toward his own head.

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The man identified himself as 28-year-old Robert Scofield and told the officer he was on probation out of the state of Oregon…

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