KETTERING -- A Kettering man is sitting in a federal prison, accused of ramming his jeep full of weapons into a White House security post, then jumping a fence with a can of spray paint.
"My name is Joe Reel."
That is how an eight minute video manifesto starts out, posted to YouTube on Saturday.
"To the patriots and the enemies to those both foreign and domestic who have infiltrated our nation, this verse has ended," he continued.
Early Sunday morning -- the feds arrest a Joseph Reel at the White House. According to the criminal complaint, he had jumped the fence.
"I'm just gonna walk right up to their front door, and I'm going to spray paint the "Don't Tread on Me" snake on it," he says.
Reel's car had already slammed into a security guard post. with a brick applied to the accelerator. Inside was ammunition, machetes, and other knives.
"You have so many hard working men out there who live paycheck to paycheck... I'm gonna do something about it. I don't know why you're not. But as for me, I've got nothing to lose," said Reel on the video.
Neighbors at his Kettering apartment complex do not know him.
"Well I'm a combat veteran, and to do something like that, it's crazy. I don't know what to think about it and I don't understand it," said Steve Trimble, a neighbor.
We talked with his wife who says she has no idea what's going on. She says her husband is not in that video, that he looks nothing like her Joe Reel.
We also talked with another family member. They also have no idea what's going on, that this is completely out of the blue and they are stunned."
At 8:10 in the video, Joe Reel says, "This verse has ended, let the next begin."
He grabs the camera and the recording stops.
Reel is being held without bond on a charge of destruction of government property. He has a detention hearing Thursday at 1:45 PM in Washington, D.C.
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WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) -- A Kettering man has been charged with crashing his unoccupied Jeep near a White House Secret Service guard booth.
Joseph Reel has been charged with destruction of government property and was ordered held without bond Tuesday.
According to a federal court charging document, Reel rigged his Jeep so the vehicle crashed into a light post, bike rack and security bollard near the guard post around 3 a.m. Sunday, causing more then $1,000 worth of damage.
The charging document also says that Reel was seen on a bicycle after the crash and was stopped in a courtyard of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He told officials he wanted to spray paint "don't tread on me snake" nearby.
An email to Reel's attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday evening.
"My name is Joe Reel."
That is how an eight minute video manifesto starts out, posted to YouTube on Saturday.
"To the patriots and the enemies to those both foreign and domestic who have infiltrated our nation, this verse has ended," he continued.
Early Sunday morning -- the feds arrest a Joseph Reel at the White House. According to the criminal complaint, he had jumped the fence.
"I'm just gonna walk right up to their front door, and I'm going to spray paint the "Don't Tread on Me" snake on it," he says.
Reel's car had already slammed into a security guard post. with a brick applied to the accelerator. Inside was ammunition, machetes, and other knives.
"You have so many hard working men out there who live paycheck to paycheck... I'm gonna do something about it. I don't know why you're not. But as for me, I've got nothing to lose," said Reel on the video.
Neighbors at his Kettering apartment complex do not know him.
"Well I'm a combat veteran, and to do something like that, it's crazy. I don't know what to think about it and I don't understand it," said Steve Trimble, a neighbor.
We talked with his wife who says she has no idea what's going on. She says her husband is not in that video, that he looks nothing like her Joe Reel.
We also talked with another family member. They also have no idea what's going on, that this is completely out of the blue and they are stunned."
At 8:10 in the video, Joe Reel says, "This verse has ended, let the next begin."
He grabs the camera and the recording stops.
Reel is being held without bond on a charge of destruction of government property. He has a detention hearing Thursday at 1:45 PM in Washington, D.C.
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WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) -- A Kettering man has been charged with crashing his unoccupied Jeep near a White House Secret Service guard booth.
Joseph Reel has been charged with destruction of government property and was ordered held without bond Tuesday.
According to a federal court charging document, Reel rigged his Jeep so the vehicle crashed into a light post, bike rack and security bollard near the guard post around 3 a.m. Sunday, causing more then $1,000 worth of damage.
The charging document also says that Reel was seen on a bicycle after the crash and was stopped in a courtyard of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. He told officials he wanted to spray paint "don't tread on me snake" nearby.
An email to Reel's attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday evening.