Authorities on Wednesday identified a Michigan man as the person arrested as he tried to enter the U.S. Capitol on Election Day, reeking of fuel and carrying a torch lighter and a flare gun.

Austin Olson, 27, of Westland, Michigan, tried to enter the Capitol Visitor Center just after noon Tuesday, and also carried what appeared to be a manifesto and a letter to Congress, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.

“If our officers did not stop this man, yesterday would have been a very different story than this one,” the Capitol Police chief, J. Thomas Manger, said in a statement. “All of our employees continue to work, together, around the clock during this heightened security environment.”

The incident occurred as voters across the country were casting ballots at the polls, but investigators released no information that definitively tied the incident to the election. Elsewhere in the country, however, dozens of bomb threats were reported across multiple states, many of which the FBI said originated from Russian-run email domains.

— The Associated Press