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 Omar Gonzalez, 42, is alleged to have climbed over the White House
fence on Sept. 29, burst through the front door and made it to the
executive mansion's East Room before he was stopped.
Gonzalez, formerly of Copperas Cove, Texas, was initially charged
with unlawful entry while carrying a weapon, a federal offense. He
also faced District of Columbia charges of carrying a dangerous
weapon outside a home or business and unlawful possession of
ammunition.
The superseding grand jury indictment added two federal charges of
assaulting an officer and one District of Columbia count of unlawful
possession of a large-capacity ammunition-feeding device, the U.S.
Attorney's Office said in a statement.
 Gonzalez is alleged to have resisted two U.S. Secret Service
officers inside the White House, the basis for the new indictment.
He had a folding knife with a serrated blade in a pants pocket, the
statement said.
A search of Gonzalez's car turned up hundreds of rounds of
ammunition both in boxes and magazines, two hatchets and a machete,
it said.
Gonzalez is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
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President Barack Obama and his family were not in the White House at
the time of the incident. The breach prompted a security review
because Gonzalez got deeper into the White House than Secret Service
officials initially stated. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson
resigned in the wake of the incident and other disclosures of
security lapses.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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