The suspect was reportedly accused of stealing a Gucci handbag from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, which contained $3,000 in cash and other personal property, was arrested in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
According to the New York Post, the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service arrested the suspect. Authorities are still looking for a second suspect in connection with the incident.
Neither of them is authorized in the U.S., and U.S. immigration and customs enforcement are now involved in the case, U.S. District of Columbia interim prosecutor Columbia Ed Martin told NBC 4.
The suspects in custody are scheduled to appear in court early this week, according to the New York Post.
Homeland Security Head Kristi Noem’s wallet steals thousands of dollars in DC restaurant
Criminal suspect accused of stealing Gucci handbags from Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem, which contains $3,000 in cash (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
The Secret Service refused to confirm the report that the suspect was arrested Saturday.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote on X: “For the safety of our agents and officials, we are unable to confirm or comment at this time.
Fox News Digital has reached out to DHS, who returned to Guglielmi’s statement.
Noem was with her family on Easter Sunday in Capital Burger, Washington, DC, when the suspect brought her luxury bag along with her driver’s license, passport, medication, makeup bag, blank check, DHS badge, DHS badge, apartment keys and Louis Vitaton Clemes Clemes Serett wallet.
Homeland Security Head Kristi Noem reveals how her wallet was stolen in a restaurant: “Professional Finish”
Authorities are still looking for a second suspect. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
According to a complaint filed with local police, the bag was on the floor on her desk when it was stolen.
The security footage captured a white man wearing an N95 surgical mask, dark pants and a baseball cap to grab the bag and leave the restaurant.
The suspect glanced at the restaurant before snatching the bag, covered the bag with a jacket, and used up the video source told The New York Post.
“In fact, it was a little shocking because it happened to be sitting at my feet. I actually felt my wallet, and he used his feet and drugged a few steps away, threw his coat on it and took it away.”
Noem was with her family on Easter Sunday in Capital Burger, Washington, DC, when the suspect grabbed her luxurious bag. (Ken Cedeno/upi/Bloomberg via Getty Image)
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“I felt it, but I think it was my grandson kicking my leg. But it was very professional, it shows that this is what people have been happening, they live in this a dangerous community and it reiterates why I am here,” she added. “My job is to make sure I can do it every day and make our community safer, and President Trump recognizes that families don’t have to suffer any violence in their lives.”
Just days before Noem’s bag was stolen, another woman was eating in a nearby restaurant with her own family, and her purse was seized in a similar incident.
