An armed felon was allowed to share an elevator with the President during his September 16, 2014, visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. The felon had been hired by the CDCs private security firm. He was outed when he refused Secret Service requests to stop videoing the President with his phone. Agents were surprised when, after the guard was fired on the spot, he turned over his service weapon. They hadn't known he was armed. The Secret Service had done no background check on him, nor run him through a magnetometer a sophisticated type of metal detector. The top brass at the Secret Service told agents on the ground not to write up the incident, in an apparent attempt at a cover up.