FBI agents visited the private home of former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday, local police said, reportedly conducting a search for classified documents.
Politico said they were conducing a consensual search for classified material.
Lieutenant Tim Byrne of the Carmel, Indiana, police said his officers were managing traffic outside Pence’s home while the FBI agents were there. He could not confirm what they were doing inside the house.
The FBI, the Justice Department and a spokesman for Pence did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The search comes after Pence’s lawyers acknowledged that “a small number” of documents marked as classified were found at his Indiana home and were turned over to the FBI following a search.
The Justice Department has appointed special counsels to investigate how documents with classification markings ended up at private residences of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Biden and Pence have cooperated with authorities to find and return the documents. Trump refused, arguing he had declassified the papers when he took them to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The FBI conducted the search of his home under a subpoena on Aug. 8, 2022.
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(With assistance from Mark Niquette.)
