A suspect police accuse of burglarizing President-elect Trump’s campaign office in the Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C., has been arrested in California, according to local authorities.
Toby Shane Kessler, 39, was detained on Saturday by the University of California San Francisco Police Department for squatting in a campus dorm, the Loudoun County sheriff’s office said in a release on Thursday.
Kessler was allegedly behind the break-in at a Trump campaign office in Ashburn, Va., in August. He broke in through the back door of the office, spent a “brief” period of time in there before exiting, according to Loudoun County sheriff’s office.
The office is also used as Virginia 10th District Republican committee’s headquarters.
The sheriff’s office said that Kessler faces burglary charges, though law enforcement did not say if he took anything from the office.
“It is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,” Sheriff Mike Chapman said at the time the incident took place. “We 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.”
In mid-August, the Loudoun County sheriff’s office said Kessler has a “history of criminal behavior and appears to have been in the Washington metropolitan area at least since 2018.”
The sheriff’s office said he has a California driver’s license.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s transition team for comment.
