Suspicious Package 'Rendered Safe' Near Pentagon

ARLINGTON, Va. (The Blaze/AP) -- One person was taken into custody early Friday in connection with an investigation into a suspicious vehicle near the Pentagon, authorities said.

U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said the man was in Arlington National Cemetery overnight, when it is closed, triggering an investigation. In the course of interviewing the man, police were directed to a car, he said.

"This is an unfolding situation," Schlosser said, adding that the proximity of the car to the Pentagon made the situation more suspicious.

CBS has more, including possible other suspicious actions by the suspect:

A suspicious item found inside a vehicle near the Pentagon has been "disrupted" and "rendered safe," a law enforcement official has told CBS News.

The U.S. Park Police have in custody a man believed to be connected to the item, according to the Arlington Police Department in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C.

The man was detained after the Park Police came across him overnight in Arlington National Cemetery. The Park Police then launched a search for the man's vehicle, which was found near the Pentagon, the Arlington police said.

Previously, the man was suspected of planting suspicious devices in the Arlington area, at the national cemetery, the Pentagon and the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial. The Arlington police did not confirm that report.

Pentagon police spokesman Chris Layman said the car was in bushes near the Pentagon's north parking lot. One or two other people may have been involved, Layman said.

Police were investigating a suspicious package in the vehicle, said a U.S. official familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.

In another incident earlier this week, a motorist found with a gun and what appeared to be a suspicious package near the Pentagon was taken into custody.

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Associated Press writers Lolita Baldor, Jessica Gresko and Karen Mahabir contributed to this report.