Authorities are investigating a burglary at former president Donald Trump\u2019s campaign office in Ashburn, Va., after reviewing surveillance footage showing a man inside with a backpack strapped to his chest on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it responded to the burglary report about 9 p.m. Sunday and that a video showed a man inside wearing a dark baseball cap with insignia and a dark hoodie. The man\u2019s backpack appears to be partially full in the still images from the surveillance video released by the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,\u201d Sheriff Mike Chapman said in a statement. \u201cWe are determined to identify the suspect, investigate why it happened, and determine what may have been taken as well as what may have been left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ashburn is a Northern Virginia suburb about 30 miles from downtown Washington. The sheriff\u2019s office said the Trump for President campaign is leasing the office.<\/p>\n
Media Release: The Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office (LCSO) is seeking a suspect in connection with a burglary at the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Ashburn, VA, on August 11, 2024. The office, in the 20000 block of Ashbrook Place, is being leased by the Trump campaign\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/wkMLb4AP2D<\/p>\n
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A spokesman for the sheriff said Monday that the Trump campaign office, which also serves as the headquarters of the Virginia 10th District Republican Committee, had been cleared out while law enforcement agencies from Loudoun County and other jurisdictions canvassed the location. They asked for the public\u2019s help identifying the suspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an office park area, kind of a remote office park area, so there would not have been an awful lot of people\u201d on Sunday night, spokesman Thomas Julia said. \u201cOnce we know who this person is and the motivation, we\u2019ll have a second statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Rich Anderson said he knows \u201cvery little\u201d about the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got a phone call from my people this morning telling me that an intruder had somehow made his way in,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThey\u2019ve handed it off to the Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office. It\u2019s really in their hands, so we\u2019re just in a wait-and-see mode.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anderson said he had not been briefed yet on whether anything was missing from the office.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated. Gregory S. Schneider and Teo Armus contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Authorities are investigating a burglary at former president Donald Trump\u2019s campaign office in Ashburn, Va., after reviewing surveillance footage showing a man inside with a backpack strapped to his chest on Sunday. The Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it responded to the burglary report about 9 p.m. Sunday and that a video showed a man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}