Man arrested after using hammer to break windows at JD Vance’s Cincinnati home
The incident took place hours after JD Vance and his family left the residence to return to Washington. WLWT-TV reported that the vice president had spent the past week in the Queen City.
An unidentified man was arrested early Monday after smashing windows at the Cincinnati home of Vice President JD Vance.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the suspect was detained by members of the protective agency and taken into custody by local cops on suspicon of property damage.
“The residence was unoccupied at the time of the incident, and the Vice President and his family were not in Ohio,” said Guglielmi.
The Associated Press, citing two law enforcement officials, reported that Secret Service agents heard a loud noise at the home around midnight and found the suspect had broken a window with a hammer and was trying to get into the house.
The man had also vandalized a Secret Service vehicle on his way up the driveway, one of the officials said.
WLWT-TV reported that Vance, 41, had spent the past week in the Queen City before returning to Washington Sunday afternoon.
Potential charges against the suspect were being reviewed by the local US Attorney’s office, Guglielmi added.
Vance bought the home in the tony Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, in 2018 for $1.4 million.
In March of last year, he made headlines for criticizing pro-Ukraine protesters who demonstrated outside the house and allegedly accosted him while taking a walk with his then-three-year-old daughter.
“I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. (Nearly all of them agreed),” Vance wrote on X at the time. “It was a mostly respectful conversation, but if you’re chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest, you’re a s–t person.”
Cincinnati Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
With Post wires