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An intruder was arrested after reportedly throwing a backpack over the White House fence and then trying to jump over the fence, Fox News reported.

Late Friday evening around 11:45 p.m., Secret Service officials reported an intruder was trying to get on the White House lawn by scaling the north fence. A spokesperson later told Reuters that the alleged intruder was arrested without incident.

It wasn't immediately known if President Obama was in the home at the time of the incident.

Reuters reported that there was no indication that there were weapons in the backpack.

The person was charged with unlawful entry and his or her name has not been released.

The Secret Service has been under scrutiny after multiple attempts to intrude the president's home, including when a man with a knife climbed the fence and entered the White House in 2014.

The last person to jump the White House fence was in November, when a man wearing an American flag scaled the north fence.