One person is in custody after an overnight attack on the home of JD Vance in which windows were broken, authorities in Ohio said on Monday.

The US vice-president was not at his Cincinnati residence at the time, according to a statement from the US Secret Service.

The agency said an adult male was arrested shortly after midnight “for causing property damage, including breaking windows on the exterior of a personal residence associated with the vice-president”,CNN reported.

“The US Secret Service is coordinating with the Cincinnati Police Department and the US Attorney’s Office as charging decisions are reviewed,” a spokesperson, Anthony Guglielmi, said, according to the outlet.

Cincinnati news channel WLWT said Secret Service agents and Cincinnati police spent several hours at the house in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood after responding to reports of damage to windows.

Two unnamed law enforcement sources told the Associated Press that Secret Service agents heard a loud noise at the home around midnight and found a person who had broken a window with a hammer and was trying to get into the house. The man had also vandalized a Secret Service vehicle on his way up the home’s driveway, one of the officials said.

Vance spent last week at the house overlooking the Ohio River, but left on Sunday afternoon, WLWT reported. The channel published to its website a photograph purporting to show damage to at least four panes of glass in what looked to be a ground floor window.

While Vance enjoys round-the-clock personal protection by the Secret Service as vice-president, the level of security maintained at his private residence varies according to his travel plans.

Many politicians have taken steps to enhance security following the June 2025 killing of Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband at their Minneapolis home, and an attack on another Democratic lawmaker and his wife in the city on the same night.

In October 2024, a man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking Paul Pelosi, husband of the Democratic former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer at their California home.