Police detain 2 near Vice President Harris’s LA-area home for curfew violation

BRENTWOOD, Cali. (KTLA) — Two people were detained at Vice President Kamala Harris' Brentwood, California, home on Saturday, police confirmed to Nexstar's KTLA.

The Los Angeles Police Department said a call came into the West L.A. station around 4:40 a.m. —- during curfew hours, which were set amid the ongoing wildfires — reporting a potential burglary on the vice president’s property.

Officers responded to the residence, located on Bundy Drive north of Sunset Drive, and found two individuals on the property.

LAPD said officers detained the two people who were breaking curfew, but have since released them as they found no evidence that they were committing a crime.

Details are extremely limited, police did not immediately say what the two people were doing on the vice president’s property or whether the incident would be further investigated.

National Guard members and local enforcement from the LAPD, Santa Monica Police, and Airport Police Departments reminded residents that they will continue to patrol fire zones from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., ready to arrest anyone for trespassing, looting or any other type of violation.

Brentwood, as well as communities in the San Fernando Valley, were growing areas of concern as the Palisades Fire began climbing inland over the mountains on Friday and Saturday.

The Palisades Fire, already one of the most destructive natural disasters in Los Angeles history, erupted on Tuesday, Jan. 7. As of Saturday evening, it had claimed 5 lives, burned 23,654 acres and was 11% contained. More than 5,000 structures, many of them homes, have been destroyed in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

For more updates on the fire, click here.

More than one dozen arrests related to suspected looting have already been reported within the Los Angeles area wildfire zones, authorities said last week.

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