Fort Stewart, Ga., entrance sign. (Ryon Horne, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)
ATLANTA — One person is in custody Monday after crashing a military vehicle into the front of the 3rd Infantry Division’s headquarters building at Fort Stewart, officials at the Georgia Army post said.
The person, who has not been identified, drove the vehicle into Fort Stewart’s Building 1 at about 10 a.m., said Kevin Larson, a base spokesman. The crash destroyed the glass door entrance to the building that houses the 3rd Infantry Division’s commanding general and the headquarters staff.
No one was injured in the crash, Larson said. There was no active threat to the Fort Stewart community, he added.
The driver was taken into custody, and the Army Criminal Investigation Division and Fort Stewart military police were on the scene to investigate, Larson said.
With the investigation ongoing, Larson declined to provide further information about the incident, including whether the person taken into custody was a service member or civilian.
Officials also did not specify the kind of military vehicle that crashed into the headquarters building, but a photo posted on the popular social media platform Reddit appears to show a Humvee crashed into its glass front doors.
The incident comes about one week after an Army National Guard Humvee was stolen from an armory in Santa Rosa, Calif., law enforcement and National Guard officials said last week. California Highway Patrol officials told the Los Angeles Times that the Humvee stolen July 3 had been spotted in recent days driving on state highways near Sacramento, but it had not been recovered.
One person is in custody Monday after crashing a military vehicle into the front of the 3rd Infantry Division’s headquarters building at Fort Stewart, officials at the Georgia Army post said. (Facebook)
