NEW: JD Vance’s Home Attacked, Suspect Arrested

An unidentified man was arrested early Monday after allegedly smashing windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati home, authorities said.

The suspect was detained by Secret Service agents and later turned over to local police on suspicion of property damage, according to agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

“The residence was unoccupied at the time of the incident, and the Vice President and his family were not in Ohio,” Guglielmi said.

The Associated Press, citing two law enforcement officials, reported that Secret Service agents heard a loud noise near the home around midnight and discovered that a man had broken a window with a hammer and was attempting to get inside.

The suspect also vandalized a Secret Service vehicle while making his way up the driveway, one of the officials told the AP.

WLWT-TV reported that Vance, 41, had spent the past week in the Queen City before heading back to Washington on Sunday afternoon.

Vance purchased the home in Cincinnati’s upscale Walnut Hills neighborhood in 2018 for $1.4 million.

The residence drew national attention last year after Vance criticized pro-Ukraine protesters who demonstrated outside the house and allegedly confronted him while he was walking with his young 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.