WASHINGTON – White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, arrested Saturday with a folding knife in his pocket, had a car packed with more than 800 rounds of ammunition parked a few blocks away, a prosecutor said Monday in federal court.

The incident at the White House was the 42-year-old Army veteran's third run-in with law enforcement in recent months.

At the time of his arrest Saturday, he was out on bail from a Virginia jail after an arrest in July, when he led Virginia State Police on a car chase in Pulaski County in southwest Virginia. When authorities there searched his car, they found an arsenal, including two shotguns, three rifles and five pistols, and a map of the Washington area tucked into a Bible. The White House and the Masonic Temple in Alexandria, Va., had been circled on the map, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Mudd said.

Gonzalez will be held in jail for 10 days while authorities in Wythe County, Va., take steps to revoke his bail in that case. Gonzalez, who stood calmly in court wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, will appear in court again on Oct. 1 for a detention hearing to determine whether he will be allowed out of jail.

Mudd called Gonzalez, who is unemployed and homeless, "a danger to the president."

Police in Virginia arrested Gonzalez, of Copperas Cove, Texas, on July 19 after reports from the public about a reckless driver traveling north on Interstate 81 in Wythe County around 9 a.m. A trooper pulled behind the 1996 Ford Bronco and turned on his emergency lights, but the driver didn't stop, Virginia State Police said in a press release. The trooper pursued the Bronco for more than 20 miles before stopping it in Pulaski County. Gonzalez was charged with reckless driving, a felony count of eluding police and possession of a sawed-off shotgun. The Bronco was impounded and police are storing the other weapons, which are not illegal, for safekeeping, spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Federal authorities stopped Gonzalez on Aug. 25 by the south fence of the White House, Mudd said in court. He had a hatchet tucked into the waistband of his pants, Mudd said. Gonzalez allowed police to search his car, which was parked a block from the White House at 17th Street and New York Avenue, Mudd said. They found two dogs and camping gear.

When police arrested Gonzalez on Saturday for jumping the White House perimeter fence and running into the White House through the North Portico, federal agents say he was armed with a folding knife with a 3-inch serrated blade. He told the Secret Service agent who arrested him that he feared the "atmosphere was collapsing" and he needed to warn the president, court papers say.

Authorities again searched his car, parked nearby on Independence Avenue, where they found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, both boxed and in magazines. Police also found two hatchets and a machete.

Gonzalez's "preoccupation with the White House and his acquisition of a vast amount" of ammunition make him a danger to the president and the community, Mudd argued.

David Bos, an assistant federal public defender appointed by federal magistrate John Facciola to represent Gonzalez, said he would not dispute that Gonzalez violated the terms of his release on bond from the Virginia case. He declined a mental health evaluation for his client.

Bos said he had spoken with Gonzalez, who "fully understands" the charges and the proceedings.

Facciola, noting Gonzalez's "unusual behavior," ordered him held as a danger to the community.

The incident has raised concerns about White House security and the Secret Service's ability to preempt such security threats. On Monday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would hold a hearing Sept. 30 on the issue.The committee asked Secret Service Director Julia Pierson to testify.

"The recent intrusion of an individual into the White House is the latest in a string of high profile incidents for the Secret Service, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement. "These significant security breaches reveal our weaknesses as well as our response capabilities to our nation's enemies."

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