Heritage Foundation employee and aide to Joni Ernst and Ted Cruz caught trying to smuggle fentanyl and a gun into a senate office building.

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A Heritage Employee Was Caught With Drugs Trying to Get Into the Senate, Police Say​

Matthew Christopher Wingate was stopped and searched for having a pistol magazine in his briefcase, according to a court affidavit.

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July 24, 2026 04:38 p.m.


A Heritage Foundation employee faces a drug-possession charge after a security screening at a Senate office building turned what tested presumptively positive as cocaine and fentanyl, according to court records.
Capitol Police officers detained Matthew Christopher Wingate on July 14 after he entered the Russell Senate Office Building and placed his bag on the X-ray belt as part of routine screening,
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in Washington, D.C., superior court.

Wingate is the government-relations director for defense and foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation, and previously worked as a national security adviser for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and a military legislative assistant for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas),
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An officer observed an image consistent with a pistol magazine inside the brown briefcase, and a secondary screening found a magazine with 10 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, the affidavit states.







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