US authorities have reportedly arrested a man who is accused of stalking and harassing Malia Obama, daughter of Barack Obama.
The Secret Service are said to have detained "Jair Nilton Cardoso, a 30-year-old Brooklyn man, afterheallegedly stalked the 18-year-old daughter of former president Barack Obama at multiple locations, including attempting to enter the White House in the past!!!!!
According to the New York Daily News , on one occasion Mr Cardoso turned up to the fourth floor ofthe Tribeca officewhere Ms Obama was working as an intern and asked the eldest Obama child to marryhim.
Sources told the paperthat the Secret Service also stopped Mr Cardoso when he tried to follow the former first daughter out of a buildingin the West Village where she wasdoing another internship. The agents reportedly recognised the man and ordered him to leave the eldest Obama child alone.
Agents are then saidto have gone to Mr Cardoso's Brooklyn apartment and interviewed him, concluding that he had psychiatric issues and taking him to a Brooklyn hospital to be evaluated.