Two men were arrested on suspicion of burglary near Vice President Kamala Harris’s family home in Los Angeles, which has been evacuated due to the fires raging around the city.
The two, whom police did not identify, were booked on charges of violating the curfew that has been in effect in evacuation zones since late last week. They were arrested at 4:40 a.m. Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department told Deadline.
The two were among 29 arrests that have been made for burglary, breaking curfew and other violations since the fires started, Deadline noted. About 25 of those were related to the Eaton fire and four in the Palisades area, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Chief Robert Luna said Sunday, according to USA Today.
Harris’s property was never in danger of being burglarized, since it is guarded 24/7 by secret service agents collaborating with local law enforcement, and the pair “likely had no idea where they were,” a law enforcement source told KNBC-TV.
The LAPD said the matter was being investigated.
Harris’s Brentwood neighborhood, where Dennis Quaid, LeBron James, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger also have homes, was evacuated last Wednesday as the Palisades Fire crept closer.
As of early Monday, at least 25 people had been killed, the Los Angeles Times reported, and 16 were missing, numbers that authorities said would most likely rise. More than 80,000 people have been displaced.
