US Vice President JD Vance said Monday that “some crazy person” tried to break into his Ohio home by banging on the windows, saying he and his family were not there at the time.
CNN, citing an anonymous US law enforcement source, reported earlier that authorities were investigating an incident at the home and had arrested one person.
“As far as I know, some crazy person tried to break in by hammering on the windows. I’m grateful to the Secret Service and the Cincinnati Police for their quick response,” Vance said in a post on X.
“We weren’t even at home because we had already returned to Washington,” he added, asking the media not to show photos of the house with holes in its windows.
Separately, US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said a man was taken into custody the night after the attack.
“An adult male was arrested by Cincinnati Police after he was arrested by U.S. Secret Service personnel for causing property damage, including breaking exterior windows of a personal residence associated with the Vice President,” Guglielmi said in a statement.
The man was arrested after midnight, he added.
“The U.S. Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office while charging decisions are reviewed,” Guglielmi said.
This is the latest episode of political violence directed against an American elected official. Last June, a senior Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota and her husband were shot and killed by a gunman in what authorities said was a politically motivated killing.
Last April, a man set fire to the home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro while he and his family slept in the residence.
This attack bears similarities to the October 2022 home invasion at the San Francisco residence of Nancy Pelosi, then the Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, when a man beat her husband with a hammer.
