A man arrested three times recently for trespassing near the White House remained out of jail only to get arrested again Wednesday — this time for allegedly attempting to sexually assault an 18-year-old woman in her bedroom inside her Kalorama home.
The first White House arrest of 26-year-old Dontrae Lamont Henderson was about 11 a.m. May 3, when he entered a restricted area of the White House grounds, court documents say. He entered a fixed entry point at 15th and E streets in Northwest and said he was there to see the president about a job, police said.
Officers arrested him after noticing a security barrier where Henderson said he entered had been moved and was open. He was given a stay-away order for several blocks around the White House.
Three months later, on Aug. 9, an officer who recognized him from the May arrest and was aware of the order saw him on 17th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue. Henderson was ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle as a condition of his release.
Then two days later, just three hours after Henderson was given the ankle bracelet, he was arrested near the White House a third time. A uniformed Secret Service officer saw him sitting on a wall outside the Chamber of Commerce building in the 1600 block of H Street with a paper copy of the stay-away order in his backpack.
It’s unclear whether Henderson was still wearing the ankle bracelet Wednesday when he was arrested for a disturbing crime at a home on Kalorama Road NW. The victim awoke in her bed before 3 a.m. and found a man in her room, according to court documents. He covered her mouth, held her down and said, “I want to be your boyfriend tonight.”
She escaped through the bathroom, and the intruder fled.
Police arrested Henderson later that day in front of a home on Tracy Place about a block away. On Tuesday, the property manager had requested Henderson be barred from the home, which the suspect said was his, according to court documents.
The home is being readied for sale but had previously been rented by Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, during President Donald Trump’s first administration.
On a counter in the kitchen, detectives found fraudulent documents indicating Henderson was trying to claim he owned the house, which last sold for about $6 million.
At a court appearance for the burglary and attempted sex assault, Henderson was ordered jailed until his next court appearance.
