WASHINGTON (AP) — Access to the White House complex was halted for about an hour Tuesday after a vehicle followed a motorcade carrying President Barack Obama's daughters through the gates. 
 
 A police officer photographs a vehicle after it followed a motorcade through a barrier on Pennsylvania Avenue near the front of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Washington. The Secret Service... (Associated Press) 
 
 A man is led away in handcuffs by Uniformed Secret Service police officers after a car followed a motorcade through a barrier on Pennsylvania Avenue near the front of the White House Tuesday, May 6, 2014,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A police officer searches a vehicle after it followed a motorcade through a barrier on Pennsylvania Avenue near the front of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Washington. The Secret Service says... (Associated Press) 
 
 Uniformed Secret Service police officers search a vehicle after it followed a motorcade through a barrier on Pennsylvania Avenue near the front of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, in Washington.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Uniformed agents immediately stopped the vehicle after it trailed in behind the motorcade at about 4:40 p.m. EDT, the Secret Service said. 
 
 The driver, identified as Mathew Evan Goldstein, 55, was arrested and charged with unlawful entry. No hometown was given. 
 
 District of Columbia police swept the vehicle for explosives as it sat just feet away from the northwest gate of the White House. Access to Pennsylvania Avenue and the White House complex was restored about an hour later. 
 
 A law enforcement official said the motorcade was returning Obama's daughters to the White House. 
 
 The official said Goldstein has a pass for the Treasury Department, which is next door to the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. 
 
 The law enforcement official was not authorized to discuss Obama's family or details of the investigation and requested anonymity. ||||| BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Mathew Evan Goldstein, 55, is taken into custody by Secret Service after his car ran a roadblock on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House May 6, 2014 in Washington, DC. 
 
 The White House briefly went into lockdown Tuesday afternoon after an unauthorized car got onto a closed section of Pennsylvania Avenue behind a secure motorcade. 
 
 The street was cleared just before 5 p.m. after the Honda sedan trailed a motorcade carrying President Obama's daughters back to the White House. Press inside the building was moved to the briefing room during the disturbance. The lockdown was lifted around 5:40 p.m. 
 
 The car was stopped outside the northwest gate of the White House. The driver, Mathew Evan Goldstein, 55, had a pass to get into the Treasury Department, a building next door to the presidential residence. He was busted for unlawful entry. 
 
 The car was searched by District of Columbia police but nothing was found. 
 
 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images A car is seen on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House May 6, 2014 in Washington, DC. The area was locked down after the car was able to pass one of the road blocks protecting the White House campus. A two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was closed to automobile traffic by US President Bill Clinton in 1995 as a security measure. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Members of the Secret Service and other law enforcement gather on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House May 6, 2014 in Washington, DC. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS A member of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service clears television journalists from their positions along the driveway at the White House after a motorist attempted to drive through a secure area near the White House gates in Washington May 6, 2014. Previous Next 
 
 
 
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 There was no threat to President Obama. 
 
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– The White House was briefly locked down yesterday after a car followed a motorcade carrying President Obama's daughters into a restricted area. It was stopped just feet away from the White House's northwest gate and the driver was arrested and charged with unlawful entry, reports the AP. The driver, identified as Mathew Evan Goldstein, had a pass for the Treasury building next door, the New York Daily News reports. The Secret Service says nothing dangerous was found in the car and it's not clear why Goldstein entered the secure area.