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A antheral who broke windows astatine Vice-President J.D. Vance’s Ohio location and caused different spot harm was detained aboriginal connected Monday (January 5, 2026), the U.S. Secret Service said.
The antheral was detained soon aft midnight by Secret Service agents assigned to Mr. Vance's home, eastbound of downtown Cincinnati, bureau spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said successful a connection emailed to The Associated Press. He has not been named.
The Secret Service heard a large sound astatine the location astir midnight and recovered a idiosyncratic who had breached a model with a hammer and was trying to get into the house, according to 2 instrumentality enforcement officials who were not publically authorized to sermon the probe and spoke connected the information of anonymity. The antheral had besides vandalized a Secret Service conveyance connected his mode up the home's driveway, 1 of the officials said.
The home, successful the Walnut Hills neighborhood, was unoccupied astatine the time, and Mr. Vance and his household were not successful Ohio, Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the U.S. attorney’s bureau arsenic charging decisions are reviewed, helium said.
Mr. Vance's bureau directed questions to the Secret Service and said his household was already backmost successful Washington.
Walnut Hills is 1 of the city's oldest neighborhoods and is location to historical sites, including the Harriet Beecher Stowe House.
