US Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that “some crazy person” had tried to break into his Ohio home by banging on the windows, noting that he and his family were not there at the time.
CNN, citing an unnamed U.S. law enforcement source, previously reported that officials were investigating an incident at the home and had taken one person into custody.
“From what I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by banging on the windows. I’m grateful to the Secret Service and the Cincinnati Police Department for their quick response,” Vance said in a post on X.
“We weren’t even home as we had already returned to DC,” he added, asking the media not to show pictures of the house with holes in the windows.
Meanwhile, US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said a man was taken into custody overnight after the attack.
“An adult male was taken into custody by the Cincinnati Police Department after being detained by US Secret Service personnel for causing property damage, including breaking windows on the exterior of a personal residence associated with the vice president,” Guglielmi said in a statement.
The man was detained after midnight, he added.
“The U.S. Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office as charging decisions are reviewed,” Guglielmi said.
It was the latest episode of political violence directed at an American elected official. Last June, a high-ranking woman in a Democratic Minnesota state and her husband were shot and killed by a gunman in what authorities said was a politically motivated murder.
Last April, a man set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s house while the governor and his family were sleeping in the residence.
That attack had similarities to the October 2022 home invasion of the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi, then the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, when a man beat her husband with a hammer.
