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- Updated: Jan. 05, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
- Published: Jan. 05, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
CINCINNATI - A 26-year-old man is facing aggregate charges aft U.S. Secret Service detained him early Monday aft a hammer was utilized to break windows astatine Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati home.
William DeFoor was detained soon aft 12 a.m. by Secret Service agents assigned to Vance’s location successful nan East Walnut Hills neighborhood, WXIX Fox 19 successful Cincinnati said.
The location was unoccupied astatine nan time, and Vance and his family were not successful Ohio, said a Secret Service connection issued to Associated Press.
DeFoor is charged pinch obstructing charismatic business, criminal damaging aliases endangering, criminal trespass and vandalism. An apprehension study cited by Fox 19 states that a Secret Service supplier saw DeFoor tally onto Vance’s property, damaging 4 residential windows and a vehicle.
The Secret Service heard a large sound astir 12 a.m. Monday and recovered a personification who had surgery a model pinch a hammer and was trying to get into nan house, nan Associated Press reported. The man had besides vandalized a Secret Service conveyance connected his measurement up nan home’s driveway, an charismatic told Associated Press.
Vance addressed nan incident connected X, writing: “I admit everyone’s good wishes astir nan onslaught astatine our home. As acold arsenic I tin tell, a crazy personification tried to break successful by hammering nan windows.”
He added: “We weren’t moreover location arsenic we had returned already to D.C.”
Vance besides requested that media outlets debar publishing images of his damaged home, stating: “We effort to protect our kids arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable from nan realities of this life of nationalist service.”
The Secret Service is coordinating pinch nan Cincinnati Police Department and nan U.S. Attorney’s Office arsenic charging decisions are reviewed.
Sabrina has worked successful The Plain Dealer's DC bureau since 1994. Before that, she covered section news successful Lake and Geauga Counties. She antecedently worked astatine States News Service, The Daily Record of Morristown, NJ,...
