FBI Conducts Consensual Search of Former Vice President Mike Pence’s Home in Connection to Capitol Riot Investigation

The FBI conducted a consensual search of former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home on Friday, according to two U.S. officials. The search was part of a classified records probe, and was conducted with the cooperation of Pence’s team.

Local police said they were directing traffic in the area while the search was carried out. Sources told CBS News in November that the Justice Department had reached out to Pence in connection to former President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

The search followed the discovery of documents with classified markings by attorneys last month. Pence’s lawyer described the documents to the National Archives as a “small number of documents” that had been “inadvertently boxed and transported” to Pence’s Indiana home at the end of the Trump administration.

The two people familiar with the search spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to discuss the law enforcement action. It is unclear what the FBI was looking for or if any documents were seized.

The search of Pence’s home is the latest development in the ongoing investigation into the Trump administration’s actions in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot. The FBI has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the events of Jan. 6, and the search of Pence’s home is the latest indication that the investigation is expanding.