Editor’s note: This story, published the morning of April 6, was updated at 10 p.m. to include a statement from Montgomery County police.
Montgomery County police are investigating a report that the Silver Spring office of U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks was burglarized, according to authorities.
The break-in at the office in the 8400 block of Colesville Road occurred sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning and was discovered when a staffer arrived to work at 11:15 a.m. Friday, according to a statement from the Alsobrooks campaign.
The staffer found his desk “disheveled” with “campaign items thrown in the trash, personal belongings stolen,” said the statement released Friday night. The staffer’s “closed and sealed leather notebook containing sensitive campaign information was untied and had been opened.”
Officers responded about 11:53 p.m. Friday to the 8400 block of Colesville Road for the report of a burglary of an apartment, police spokesman Casandra Tressler said in an email Saturday night.
According to the investigating officers, “personal property belonging to an employee was reported to have been stolen and items appeared to be in a state of minor disarray,” Tressler said.
No injuries were reported and no suspects have been identified, she said. Police don’t have “any specific details as to what was tampered with,” she said.
Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s county executive, said she was “disappointed” that her campaign office “seemed to be targeted.” The campaign office said that no other tenants of the building reported a break-in.
“Someone forced their way in, went through sensitive material, threw some of our campaign shirts in the trash and stole personal items from a staff member,” Alsobrooks said. “This will not deter us and it only strengthens our resolve to run the kind of uplifting campaign we’ve been running since day one.”
Alsobrooks and Rep. David Trone (Dist. 8) are the frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in the May 14 primary election to replace Sen. Ben Cardin (D), who is retiring. Former Gov. Larry Hogan is the frontrunner among those seeking the Republican nomination.
The Alsobrooks campaign said surveillance cameras are being installed at the office to increase safety.
