VICE president JD Vance’s home was left with broken windows and cops have since arrested a man accused of causing the damage.
Officers swooped on the Cincinnati, Ohio, home on Monday morning and made the arrest just after midnight.
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Cops rushed to the home of Vice President JD Vance early on Monday morningCredit: AP
Cops were seen shining flashlights at the broken windowsCredit: WCPO-TV
William DeFoor has been named as the suspect behind the alleged attack on Vance’s propertyCredit: Hamilton County Justice Center
Secret Service agents saw a person running in an eastward direction and called local police, as reported by the Fox affiliate WXIX-TV.
They found someone who had smashed a window with a hammer, an anonymous official told The Associated Press.
William DeFoor, 26, has been named as the suspect behind the alleged attack on Vance’s property.
He allegedly smashed four of the home’s windows and damaged a car, according to an arrest report seen by WXIX.
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DeFoor is being charged with charges of vandalism, criminal trespass, and endangering offenses.
He is also accused of obstructing official business, and criminal endangering.
Officers read DeFoor’s rights, to which he replied: “I don’t know.”
He will be arraigned on Tuesday at the Hamilton County Municipal Court Tuesday
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Cops were seen shining flashlights at the broken windows as they investigated the scale of the damage.
Investigators are probing whether Vance or his family were being targeted, a law enforcement source told CNN.
The second family were not in Ohio, a Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News.
Vance has since broken his silence.
“I appreciate everyone’s well wishes about the attack at our home,” he wrote on X.
“As far as I can tell, a crazy person tried to break in by hammering the windows.”
Vance owns the property which overlooks the Ohio River.
He splashed out just under $1.4 million on the home and it spans almost 2.3 acres.
Historian Walter E. Langsam described the property as a “rustic example” of mid-century Gothic Revival and High Victorian Gothic design.
Vance and his wife Usha own a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington DC, and owned one in Alexandria, Virginia.
The couple found a buyer for their Alexandria home just five days after putting it on the market, according to Realtor.
The property was sold in February last year.
They moved into the Vice President’s home in January 2025 following Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The incident comes after restrictions around Vance’s Cincinnati home were lifted.
Roads were closed between December 29 and January 4.
Homeowners who live in the same neighborhood were forced to go through extra security checkpoints.
Vance was in Florida on Friday where he met with Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago home.
The meeting took place just hours before Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro was captured by US special forces. Vance is now back in Washington.
Vance is considered one of the frontrunners for the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential nomination.
Trump cannot run for a third term and has said he will not do so despite joking about the prospect.
The 22nd Amendment stops presidents from serving more than two terms.
The two-term maximum ruling was brought in in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row.
Trump could only achieve this by changing the constitution.
Such a process would need two-thirds approval from the Senate and the House of Representatives.
And, it would need the approval of three-quarters of state legislatures.
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Officers taking photographs of the broken windowsCredit: ABC5
JD Vance with his wife Usha and their children at Donald Trump’s inauguration parade at Capital One Arena in Washington DCCredit: Getty
