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FBI Chicago Went on Lockdown After Man Jumped Fence and Threw Rocks at Building

There were no injuries stemming from the incident, but the feds say the man involved was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

A man was arrested Thursday after he scaled a fence at the FBI Chicago office and began hurling rocks at the building, said Rob Sperling, a spokesman for the Federal Protective Service. The incident ended without injury around 11 a.m. but the man involved, who was not named by authorities, was taken to a hospital for evaluation. The bureau did not say what it believed the man’s motive was. FBI offices throughout the country have been on high-alert in the aftermath of a raid of former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-A-Lago earlier this month. Since the raid, the agency has reported an increase in threats at its field offices, most notably in Cincinnati—where a gunman failed to breach a field office before he led law enforcement on an hours-long chase that ended with him being killed in a corn field. The man killed, Ricky Shiffer, made social media posts leading up the attack that said he was preparing for a “civil war” and was ready to kill federal agents “on site,” all stemming from the Mar-A-Lago raid.