By Alanna Durkin Richer and Kathy McCormack
Associated Press
CINCINNATTI, Ohio — A person who broke home windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio house and precipitated different property injury was detained early Monday, the U.S. Secret Service stated.
The man was detained shortly after midnight by Secret Service brokers assigned to Vance’s house, east of downtown Cincinnati, company spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi stated in an announcement emailed to The Associated Press. The vp and his household weren’t at house, having returned to Washington on Sunday after a weekend there, his workplace stated.
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The Secret Service heard a loud noise on the home round midnight and located an individual who had damaged a window with a hammer and was attempting to get in, in accordance with two regulation enforcement officers who weren’t publicly licensed to debate the investigation into what occurred and spoke on the situation of anonymity. The man had additionally vandalized a Secret Service automobile on his method up the house’s driveway, one of many officers stated.
A regulation enforcement official recognized the suspect as William Defoor, 26, who public information checklist as residing in Cincinnati. Calls to the listings for attainable family and an legal professional who beforehand represented Defoor weren’t instantly returned.
Defoor is ready to be arraigned Tuesday on misdemeanor fees of vandalism, prison trespass, prison damaging and obstruction of official enterprise, court docket information present.
Vance expressed gratitude to the Secret Service and Cincinnati police for responding rapidly to the incident in a put up on the social platform X.
“I appreciate everyone’s well wishes about the attack at our home,” Vance tweeted. “As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows.”
Court information present that Defoor confronted an earlier cost of vandalism in 2024 and agreed to therapy beneath the county’s Mental Health Court system.
The Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the U.S. legal professional’s workplace as charging choices are reviewed, Guglielmi stated.
The Vance house is situated in one of many metropolis’s oldest neighborhoods, on hills overlooking town. Throughout Vance’s vice presidency, protesters have usually gathered outdoors the house — clashing at one level final spring with Vance himself.
Vance, a Republican, was a U.S. senator representing Ohio earlier than turning into vp. He moved to Cincinnati after a stint in Silicon Valley following regulation faculty, and his half brother ran unsuccessfully for mayor there final 12 months. Vance was raised in close by Middletown, which figured closely in his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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This story has been up to date to right the suspect’s listed residency to Cincinnati, not Kentucky.
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Associated Press writers Mike Balsamo, Sarah Brumfield and Julie Carr Smyth contributed to this report.
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