https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190528/college-freshman-slipped-into-mar-a-lago-while-trump-was-in-town
By Jane Musgrave
@pbpcourts
The Palm Beach Post
May 28, 2019
WEST PALM BEACH -- Four months before a Chinese woman was accused of lying
to get into Mar-a-Lago, an 18-year-old college freshman in November fooled
Secret Service agents into thinking he was a club member and wandered the
grounds for 20 minutes before he was arrested.
An apologetic Mark Lindblom on Tuesday told a federal magistrate that he had no
evil intentions when he decided to try and enter the club on the day after
Thanksgiving while President Donald Trump and his family were visiting. The
Washington, D.C. teenager said he just wanted to see if he could do it.
And, according to accounts from his attorney and a federal prosecutor, it was
pretty easy.
Visiting his grandparents, who are members of the nearby Palm Beach Bath &
Tennis Club, Lindblom simply walked down the beach the two clubs share.
Once at a tunnel under State Road A1A that gives Mar-a-Lago members exclusive
access to the beach, Lindblom stood in line with club members who were waiting
to pass through a metal detector manned by Secret Service agents, said his
attorney Marcos Beaton.
“Mr. Lindblom was wanded by Secret Service agents and he walked on through,”
Beaton said.
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