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A fishy was arrested successful the theft past weekend of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse astatine a edifice successful downtown Washington, D.C, instrumentality enforcement officials said Sunday.
The purse included immoderate large belongings, including $3,000 successful cash, Noem’s DHS entree badge, her passport, her driver’s license, blank checks and her keys. The theft occurred arsenic Noem was celebrating Easter with her family.
“Thank you to Secret Service and ICE and our instrumentality enforcement partners for uncovering and arresting the transgression who stole my container connected Easter Sunday arsenic I shared a repast with my household astatine a Washington DC restaurant,” Noem said Sunday successful a statement, provided to The Hill done a spokesperson.
Law enforcement officials did not place the fishy by sanction but accused the idiosyncratic of being a repetition offender who had immigrated to the United States illegally immoderate years ago.
“This idiosyncratic is simply a vocation transgression who has been successful our state illegally for years,” Noem continued successful the statement.
“Unfortunately, truthful galore families successful this state person been made victims by crime, and that’s wherefore President Trump is moving each azygous time to marque America harmless and get these transgression aliens disconnected of our streets,” she said.
U.S. Secret Service Washington Field Office Special Agent successful Charge Matt McCool said successful a connection that the idiosyncratic “was taken into custody without incident” successful D.C., pursuing “an intensive investigation” conducted successful coordination with section and national instrumentality enforcement agencies.
McCool called the suspect “a serial offender” and said determination was nary denotation Noem was targeted due to the fact that of her presumption arsenic DHS secretary.
“We person besides determined that this incidental had nary protective nexus to Secretary Noem oregon her relation arsenic Secretary of Homeland Security. The probe revealed alleged transgression activity, including imaginable instrumentality and recognition paper fraud,” McCool added.
The Hill has reached retired to the Metropolitan Police Department for comment.
