Suspect arrested for alleged theft of Kristi Noem's bag containing $3K in cash: reports

The fishy accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci handbag containing $3,000 successful currency and different idiosyncratic belongings was arrested connected Saturday successful Washington, D.C., according to reports.

The Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service caught the suspect, the New York Post reported. Authorities are inactive searching for a 2nd fishy successful transportation with the incident.

The 2 are some successful the U.S. without authorization and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is present progressive successful the case, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin told NBC 4. Martin said determination is nary denotation Noem was targeted for her relation astatine DHS.

The fishy successful custody is scheduled to look successful tribunal aboriginal this week, according to the New York Post.

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The fishy accused of stealing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci handbag containing $3,000 successful currency was arrested connected Saturday successful Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images | Fox News Digital)

The Secret Service has declined to corroborate reports that the fishy was arrested connected Saturday.

"For the information of our agents and officers, we are not successful a presumption to corroborate oregon remark astatine this time," Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi wrote connected X. "Should transgression charges beryllium filed, the Department of Homeland Security volition supply nationalist accusation successful accordance with established procedures."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to DHS, which referred backmost to Guglielmi's statement.

Noem was with her household connected Easter Sunday astatine The Capital Burger successful Washington, D.C., erstwhile the fishy nabbed her luxury container containing the currency arsenic good arsenic her driver’s license, passport, medication, constitution bag, blank checks, DHS badge, flat keys and a Louis Vuitton Clemence wallet.

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Authorities are inactive searching for a 2nd suspect. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The container was connected the level astatine her array erstwhile it was stolen, according to a ailment filed with section police.

Security footage captured a achromatic antheral successful a N95 surgical mask, acheronian pants and a shot headdress grabbing the container earlier leaving the restaurant.

The fishy glanced astir the edifice earlier snatching the bag, covering it with his overgarment and moving retired of the establishment, sources who viewed the footage told the New York Post.

"It was benignant of shocking, actually, due to the fact that it was sitting close by my feet. I really felt my purse, helium hooked it with his ft and cause it a fewer steps distant and dropped a overgarment implicit it and took it," Noem told podcaster Vince Coglianese connected the "VINCE Show."

Noem was with her household connected Easter Sunday astatine The Capital Burger successful Washington, D.C., erstwhile the fishy nabbed her luxury bag. (Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"I felt it, but I thought it was my grandkids kicking maine successful the legs. But it was precise professionally done, and it tells that this happens each the clip to radical and that they unrecorded successful communities wherever this is simply a information and it reaffirms wherefore I americium here," she added. "My occupation is to marque definite that I bash everything, each time I tin to marque our communities safer and President Trump recognizes that families shouldn’t person to unrecorded with immoderate benignant of unit successful their lives."

Just days earlier Noem's container was stolen, different pistillate eating with her ain household astatine a adjacent eatery had her purse nabbed successful a akin incident.