The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home was reportedly broken into Monday night, the sheriff’s office confirmed to media.
Burrow was in Texas playing in a Monday Night Football game against the Dallas Cowboys when his Anderson Township home was burglarized. Just after 9 p.m., a woman called 911 and told dispatchers her daughter was staying in the house and came home to find it broken into:
CALLER: Someone is trying to break into the house right now; my daughter is there. This is Joe Burrow’s house; she is staying there. He’s at the football game. She’s wondering what she should do — if she should be hiding or if she should go outside.
DISPATCHER: Someone’s trying to break in?
CALLER: She said someone was in the house.
That woman’s daughter also called 911:
DISPATCHER: 911, what’s your emergency?
CALLER: Hi, someone broke into my house. It’s just, like, completely messed up.
According to a police report, the woman told sheriff’s deputies that when she arrived home, she saw a bedroom window had been smashed and the room had been ransacked. She gave deputies a list of items that may have been missing.
According to WLWT, radio traffic indicated there was an officer on detail at Burrow’s home Monday night, and the woman residing there can be heard on the 911 call talking to the security detail.
The sheriff’s office wasn’t able to provide any more information Tuesday, but the break-in does come just weeks after the NFL issued a security alert memo warning team security directors and the players' union about "burglaries by organized and skilled groups" targeting the homes of professional athletes. Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce both had their homes burglarized within days of each other in October.