Secret Service fires on suspects outside Janet Yellen’s home

The Secret Service fired several shots outside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s home early Tuesday morning. Carjackers were attempting to break into vehicles near Yellen’s mansion in Northwest Washington, DC when a uniformed Secret Service agent fired their weapon sometime shortly after 1 a.m.

The suspect fled in a car. It is unclear if they were injured during the incident, but so far it appears they have not been arrested. Senior law enforcement officials are calling the incident an “officer-involved shooting,” according to multiple reports.

The Secret Service and the Treasury Department did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on the shooting. Yellen is being protected by United States Secret Service (USSS) agents and law enforcement officials have confirmed that President Joe Biden’s cabinet member was not threatened during the incident.

The Treasury Secretary’s residence in DC has six bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and, at 5,800 square feet, is a huge house in an upscale neighborhood in the northwest part of the nation’s capital.

Online estimates put the value of Yellen’s home at around $2.7 million and last sold in the fall of 2019 for $2,065,000. Carjackings have spiraled out of control in Washington DC in recent years – something critics attribute to a loosening of criminal laws in the city.

In 2023, there were 958 carjackings in the District, up from 484 in 2022. And so far this year, there have been 475. Yellen isn’t the only politician dealing with the fallout from the uptick in carjacking.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was returning to his home in Southeast Washington, D.C., last October when three armed assailants took his car, a white Honda CHR with Texas license plates. Cueller was not injured in the carjacking.

In addition, earlier this year, two teenagers were arrested in connection with a burglary of a Secret Service vehicle used by agents guarding President Biden’s granddaughter, Naomi Biden.

Last November, officers opened fire after Robert Kemp, 19, and a 14-year-old tried to break into the unmarked USSS car outside Naomi Biden’s Georgetown home.

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