WESTLAND, Mich. (FOX 2) – FOX 2 was at Austin Olson’s Westland apartment; Neighbors said it was quiet, even normal. A neighbor said a few days ago that he read Olson’s manifesto and said it was good, almost like poetry.

Olson was arrested at the US Capitol for bringing a flare gun, a lighter and gasoline.

“You never know about people,” said Crystal Rodgers, a neighbor. “A quiet person. I see him here reading a book under the tree reading a book.”

Olson was reading and apparently writing a manifesto that she read to another neighbor, not this husband and wife.

“He seemed like a really nice guy,” said Victor Rodgers, a neighbor. “We’d talk, we’d watch him come in and out of the building. I would characterize myself as a pretty good guy.”

But as Victor’s wife said, you never know about people.

On Election Day, Olson, who lives in Westland, allegedly made the eight-hour drive to Washington, D.C., showed up at the Capitol, walked to the south entrance, was approached by Capitol Police and told to go through a security check.

“One of the officers noticed a faint odor of gasoline,” said Chief J. Thomas Manger of the US Capitol Police.

And in the backpack an even stronger aroma; Inside, two bottles, a flare gun and a lighter.

Additionally, he had a sort of manifesto that contained, in part, some of his views on the war in the Middle East.

“He had documents with him and said his intention was to deliver them to Congress,” Manger said.

Manger said Olson had some things in his backpack that he might have wanted to set on fire, and described his clothing that day as layered, too many for the weather.

“At this point it’s really unknown what his intentions were,” he said.

Digging deeper into Olson’s past, FOX 2 discovered he had a DUI arrest about five years ago in Canton.