Story highlights Witness heard jumper say 'All right, let's do this' before running toward fence 
 
 Secret Service says suspect scaled fence as first family celebrated Thanksgiving inside 
 
 Witnesses say the man was draped in an American flag and was carrying an envelope 
 
 (CNN) A man is in custody after jumping over a White House fence while the first family was inside celebrating Thanksgiving, officials said. 
 
 Joseph Caputo scaled a fence on the North Lawn at 2:45 p.m., according to Secret Service spokesperson Robert Hoback. The jumper was immediately apprehended and taken into custody. 
 
 According to two CNN photojournalists who witnessed the incident, the men was carrying an envelope, had on a blue shirt and white pants and was cloaked in an American flag. They said the officers who detained him had their guns drawn and were accompanied by K-9 units. 
 
 Vanessa Pena, an intern on Capitol Hill, was playing tourist with her twin sister who was in town for Thanksgiving. "We were just standing there and the man came up behind us," she told CNN. "I heard him take a deep breath and say, 'All right, let's do this.'" 
 
 Pena said the man "ran through" she and her sister before he jumped over a barricade, and then the fence. 

 A man wearing an American flag and carrying a binder in his mouth was arrested after he jumped the fence at the White House Thursday afternoon, police said. 
 
 Uniformed officers from the U.S. Secret Service quickly apprehended Joseph Caputo, of Stamford, Connecticut, on the North Lawn about 2:45 p.m., as the first family spent the Thanksgiving holiday inside the White House. 
 
 “Even though it was a national holiday, the Secret Service showed it could move quickly to apprehend a fence jumper,” House Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said in a statement. “However, the failure of the new White House perimeter fence, despite its recent modifications with spikes, is both baffling and discouraging." 
 
 Norton, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said she and other members of Congress were shown samples of the spikes bolted to the taller fence in the summer and were assured no one would be able to jump the enhanced fence. 
 
 Connecticut Man Jumps White House Fence With First Family Spending Holiday Inside 
 
 A man scaled the recently enhanced White House fence with an American flag and raised his arms in the air on the North Lawn before he was taken into custody. Meagan Fitzgerald reports. (Published Friday, Nov. 27, 2015) 
 
 Caputo was the first person to jump the fence since the spikes were installed. 
 
 Victoria Pena of Houston said the man was standing with other people visiting the White House compound when he rushed toward the fence carrying what appeared to be a binder. 
 
 "I just heard him take a big, deep breath and whisper to himself, `All right, let's do this,' and he took off,'' Pena said. "It was chaotic. Everyone around us was yelling, and kids were crying. It was pretty unexpected." 
 
 "Casually, I'm just there taking pictures and I see a ninja coming through, climbing,” witness Amar Marwaha of London told News4. 
 
 Security personnel and guard dogs ran toward the man and he lay on the grass awaiting them, Pena said. 
 
 Charges are pending. 
 
 Man Draped in American Flag Jumps White House Fence 
 
 A man wrapped in an American flag jumped the fence at the White House but was quickly taken into custody. (Published Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015) 
 
 The White House was locked down until about 6:30 p.m. 
 
 The Secret Service also is investigating a 2003 Ford Taurus with Connecticut license plates with "Caputs" on them that was parked more than three miles away from the White House at Hains Point. Law enforcement sources said it's Caputo's car. 
 
 It was the seventh time in two years someone has jumped the White House fence. The most serious incident was in September 2014, when Omar Gonzalez made it all the way into the White House carrying a knife. About a month later, Dominic Adesanya scaled the perimeter before the K9s took him down. Then in April, Jerome Hunt took a bus from California just to jump the fence in D.C. 
 
 The National Park Service is in the process of enhancing security around the White House. Permanent changes to the White House fence and checkpoints are expected in fall 2016. 
 
 Norton will ask for a meeting with Secret Service officers early next week. 
 
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– A man who apparently intended to interrupt the Obama's family's Thanksgiving hopped the White House fence wrapped in a US flag Thursday afternoon but he didn't get far. The intruder, identified by NBC as Joseph Caputo, was arrested by Secret Service agents soon after he jumped the fence onto the North Lawn at 2:45pm. He was carrying what appeared to be a binder in his mouth. President Obama and his family were celebrating Thanksgiving inside the White House at the time, reports CNN, which notes that Caputo is the third person to make it over the fence this year. The White House was locked down and the all-clear was issued around two hours later.