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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bruce Golding

Heritage Foundation exec arrested on drug possession charge after accidentally bringing pistol ammo into Senate office building

The government relations director for the conservative Heritage Foundation was arrested on a drug possession charge after he accidentally brought pistol ammo into the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington.

Chris Wingate, 45, of Alexandria, Virginia, was stopped after an X-ray screening of his briefcase revealed "what appeared to be a pistol magazine" inside, according to an affidavit filed in Superior Court for the District of Columbia.

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