Every year, Supreme Court justices and others in the legal profession gather at a Catholic cathedral in Washington, D.C., before the start of their new term to observe Red Mass, but this year, safety concerns prevented the justices from attending.

Before the Mass, officers found 41-year-old Louis Geri in a camping tent he’d set up on the steps of St. Matthew’s Cathedral at 6 a.m. on Sunday with “suspicious items,” The Washington Post reported.

The items included vials of liquid and possible fireworks. Officials sent arson investigators and a bomb unit to the scene. Geri had previously been barred from the Cathedral grounds, police said.

When asked to leave, Geri refused and was promptly arrested.

He has been charged on a preliminary basis with unlawful entry, threats to kidnap or inj

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