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Grand jury indicts individual accused of vandalizing vice president’s Ohio home JD Vance Federal charges were filed Wednesday for causing other property damage.
The three-count indictment charges William D. DeFoor, 26, cincinnatiDestroying government property, committing physical violence against any person or property in a restricted building or grounds, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers.
DeFoor faces up to 10 years in prison on each of the first two charges and up to 20 years in prison on the third charge.
DeFoor’s defense attorney, Paul Laufman, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Laufman has previously said the situation was “purely a mental health issue” and that his client was not politically motivated.
court records It shows separate charges — mostly misdemeanors — of vandalism, criminal trespassing, criminal mischief and obstruction of justice initially filed against DeFoor in state court were dismissed Friday.
Federal prosecutors claimed that agent Just after midnight on January 5, I saw someone running along the front fence of Vance’s home in Cincinnati’s upscale East Walnut Hills neighborhood and then breaching the property line. The man, later identified as DeFoor, was armed with a hammer and attempted to break the windows of an unmarked Secret Service vehicle as he drove down the driveway and then moved toward the front of the house, breaking 14 historic windows, according to a federal affidavit.
The security enhancements around the windows caused $28,000 worth of damage, documents show.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that DeFoor must remain incarcerated pending trial.
Vance thanked the Secret Service and Cincinnati police for their work on the case on social media and in interviews. He also declined to speculate on the suspect’s motives, while saying the suspect was “clearly a very sick man.”
