UPDATE: Authorities identified a suspect Wednesday in the break-in at a Donald Trump campaign office in suburban Virginia. Toby Shane Kessler, 39, is suspected of breaking into the office on Sunday evening, the Loudoun County Sherriff’s Office said. Kessler, who has a criminal record and no known address, was not in custody, the office said in a statement. (link)
On Sunday August 11, 2024, at approximately 9:00pm authorities were alerted to a break-in at the Trump 2024 campaign headquarters in Ashburn, VA.
The sheriff’s office is now releasing images from the security camera as they attempt to identify the individual. The white male, late 40’s, wearing a baseball cap, dark grey hoodie, grey pants and a reverse mounted backpack is pictured below. Based entirely on the appearance of the individual and the manner of which he is carrying his kit, this guy looks like a fed.
Press release from the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) below:
Loudoun County, VA (August 12, 2024): The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) is seeking a suspect in connection with a burglary at the Trump for President 2024 campaign office in Ashburn, VA, on August 11, 2024. The office, in the 20000 block of Ashbrook Place, is being leased by the Trump campaign and also serves as the headquarters of the Virginia 10th District Republican Committee.
LCSO was contacted about the burglary yesterday at approximately 9:00 pm and deputies responded. The investigation is ongoing, and the LCSO has video surveillance of the suspect. He is a white adult male, wearing dark clothing, a dark cap, and a backpack when he entered the location.
“It is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,” said Sheriff Mike Chapman. “We are determined to identify the suspect, investigate why it happened, and determine what may have been taken as well as what may have been left behind.”
Anyone who believes they know the suspect, witnessed the burglary, or has any other information is asked to contact Detective Franks at 571-918-1869. (MORE)
Sheriff office unsure if anything was “taken” or “left behind”?
Suspicious Cat remains, well, exceptionally suspicious…
funny that Trump has mentioned several times that Joe might make some trouble, that he’s really regretful…
I don’t doubt it, although I can’t imagine how they’d allow him to mess up their coup and psy-op.
Trump also never thought Joe would ultimately be the candidate.
I would agree with Trump, except for the fact that Joe’s energy and mental state mitigates against it going beyond threats and grumbles…
Joe? I thought Jill would be Hellraiser!
I don’t know if Trump thinks this himself or if some pollster put the bug in his head, but Trump thinks he can peel away some otherwise Biden voters to him by “feeling sorry for him [Biden]” or by playing up the way the Harris faction stuck a knife in Biden’s back.
That might work to persuade one voter per precinct. In other words, I Love You Donald J, but that dog just don’t hunt.
I you were a faithful Biden voter before Kam, you are also a Trump hater.
If, on the other hand, you’re an actual independent, that is not the “issue” that forces you to the left or to the right.
In short, it’s wasted breath.
I believe he’s making the play that some stay home. That works for me.
I also think it is of value to point out how decidedly undemocratic the ascension of Kamala Harris has been.
Rub their noses in it.
They are the ones that said our democracy is in danger. I think it is fine to point out how it is in danger.
Joe has been relegated to screaming at MAGA and barking at the moon
He-e-e-er’s Joey!
That guy looks like a FED. 🫣 Maybe just a Secret Service guy looking for a restroom.
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Serious Fed vibes. What real thief or vandal would not suspect cameras and cover his face?
With facial recognition nearly ubiquitous, they very likely already know who and where he is.
Likely this Fed knows he will get the charge wiped — that is if he is ever charged.
Probably the same Fed that left the “bomb” at the DNC on Jan 6.
Either a FED or
Someone they were grooming for the next assassination attempt
Or Secret Service guy looking for a place to breast feed.
OK internet. Find him.
DmV records. Passport records. The many other CCTV sources. Cant be hard.
Don’t forget the facial recognition software that is widely deployed across the country.
His FBI ID badge should do nicely
You friggin had me laugh out loud as I eat alone at the Moes. The Chicken Casa-dilla if your wondering
FBI: “OK internet. HIDE HIM!”
Kinda resembles Ray Epps!
There must be a factory stamping out slightly modified clones for different roles. Like all of the horse-faced estrogen tyrants (Hochul, Jacinda, etc).
With the cat lady eye bulge…
Exactly Correct!
And adams apples
SOMEBODY just quietly qualified for an early retirement.
…with 7 figure Golden Parachute Retirement Plan offered by/for Deep State operatives – paid by us.
Planted a bug? Or bugs…
The Loudon County Sherriff’s Office said was investigating to “determine what may have been taken as well as what may have been left behind.”
But what are they going to overhear from a bug, that could justify authorising a burglary?
At the Loudon County Virginia offices, no less.
Also, pretty amatuer to not have checked for and disabled the camera.
Hmm. Thanks for the emphasis, needs consideration.
Has anyone ever heard an LEO reporting on a burglary add that last phrase? No wonder Suspicious Cat has both eyes wide open.
It’s almost like the sheriff’s office is saying, “Hey media, get in here quick and check out the planted classified document! The planted nuclear codes! The planted child porn!”
Yeah, with Virginia cracking down on fraud, Democrats have reason to fear. It’s not just NoVa. It’s always been blatant FRAUD that’s turned VA blue.
That’s more than enough for the FBI to find out who he is. Their silence confirms that more than the backpack.
The suggestion is they know exactly who he is and what he was up to.
The internet should be able to find this guy. The pics are solid.
Kari Lakes office was broken into; turned out it was a homeless junkie, just looking to steal anything he could sell.
Lots of homeless people use backpacks,…just sayin…
Unless “his” estrogen is running high, not too many homeless are clean shaven. Wearing a shorter hair style, too.
If this guy was a fed, he’d be covering his face. I know people like to think they’re all stupid, but they wouldn’t be this stupid.
They are that stupid.
Was he wearing brown shoes and black socks with his khaki cargo shorts?
Asking for a friend…
… or arrogant and cocksure.
They are that arrogant. Just like we learned from Covid, no need for a face mask when you’re above the law.
Did you see camera footage of the Secret Service in the salon? The woman taping the camera wasn’t masked but thought that she should tape the camera. Stupid.
Playing devil’s advocate though — assuming that there’s still a FISA warrant in place and Trump is being spied on again, what could they possibly want that they don’t have already?
Just fill in the blank ______ 3 letter only….
NYT Crossword Puzzle…
Ah THE OLD DAYS – BEFORE we KNEW About predictive programming
More arrogance than stupidity. They know that nothing will happen to them, so why bother with a mask.
I agree with you. I remember ONE white guy attacking an Asian during the whole “stop Asian hate movement” and the guy had a baseball cap and very fed looking sunglasses. He was the only white person who did it and was caught on camera. This guy either isn’t a fed or he legit thought there were no cameras.
As for Kamala’s SS…I don’t think those are real SS, I think she’s replaced them with Communist foot soldiers.
Pretty darned clear images. Should be pretty easy to identify him (if that is what authorities want to do). Wonder why the guy didn’t wear at least a N95 mask.
That was my first impression when the photo was first made public.
An obvious ‘mature’ adult doing stupid stuff one would expect from an adolescent punk = COVERT BLACK BAG JOB.
Either that or another Iranian operation / sarcasm
Isn’t it crazy that Iran was too busy hacking Trump’s campaign, that it missed its own central bank getting hacked?
What are the odds?
A total coincidence, I’m sure
Right wing white Iranian terrorist
Watergate 2.0 ?? Or maybe this is the infamous J6 pipe bomber…
That’s what I’m saying.
The coverup is worse than the crime. Lol.
lol…the ONLY thing missing are three big letters on his jacket…FBI…
I suggest the sheriff issue a search warrant on FBLie personal records….
psst…NO MERCY
Wonder if this glowie is any J6 photos. And Watergate was just a third rate break-in.
Install a remote device to surveille a nationwide networked campaign server?
Let’s check cell phone hits in that area.
No doubt, that’s a fed. Loudoun was once a rural county with horse farms. It is now a soulless, mcmansion hellscape made up of federal employees, federal contractors, and big tech employees.
Basically, what Obi-Wan Kenobi described as: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Yep, used to live there, now don’t even want to visit.
The whole Commonwealth is getting that way. The DC hive scum has flooded and ruined Virginia.
I was born and raised there but left a few years ago just as the Fakeass Flu was unleashed. Shortly after VA was locked down tight as a drum.
I loathe even going back to visit family. Such a shame..
I remember when it was a rual, bucolic place. Spent many times visiting relatives,going to
antique shops.Couldn’t pay me to go back now…
Why is everybody accepting that this is a real picture of the burglar?
If it is a fed, then deep fake /AI anyone?
Has the source of the photograph been verified?
Question everything.
The source of the photographs is the Loudon County Sheriff in northern VA.
The campaign headquarters can easily see their own CCTV footage. If this was not the man on their video, someone from the campaign would be howling about it.
Awful things always happening to PTrump. One event after the other. While the opposite side seems to just goes along on their merry way. Longing for the day of reckoning.
They have a joyous campaign from what I’m told.
What does his hat say?
His hat talks? 🙂
ha, ha! Love it Wordman!
My sides are hurting 😂🤣😂🤣
Somebody knows him if it’s a real picture, and not computer generated.
There’s more going on here. A misdirection possibly, but from who or what?
I would close up shop and move to another office immediately.
I would open up the walls and look for gold.
Can anyone make out the emblem on the front of his ball cap. It’s partly obscured by his sunglasses, but it looks familiar.
Also looks like he’s wearing some kind of shooting gear. Note the iron-shaped patch on his upper left arm.
He doesn’t look Iranian.
He looks like he is on the spectrum so he must be a disposable asset programmed by the Feds.
Right down the street from where I was. Keeping a look out for this guy. Distinct face for sure.
Almost seems he doesn’t care if he is on camera / perhaps he is wearing some sort of mask ….. (s)
Does not care. They openly just sought to assassinate PDJT openly, without a hint of stealth or subtlety.
They know the enemy of the people media will promptly change the subject with whatever foolishness comes to impulse – “Why PDJT just said that Hiroshima was no big deal,” or whatever idiocy seems to call attention.
They know the GOPe will find some shiny toy to engage in marionette theatrics ignoring the problem.
No need to care. Do not care.
Perhaps his face is just a group of pixels generated by AI.
I do ministry work in prison. I am not allowed to bring electronic video equipment into the prison so I have become quite competent at making flip charts down to one pixel. Video software is a Godsend.
That’s funny. I thought he looked like a Fed too when I first saw the pic.
“We are determined to identify the suspect, investigate why it happened, and determine what may have been taken as well as what may have been left behind.”
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What insignia is on his hat? CIA?
Whatever it is, they know what it says by now, but they haven’t seen fit to tell us.
If this was a Jan 6 protestor, he’d be identified for sure, if they used a 100th of the resources. And ultimately would be imprisoned for 10 years.
It seems these “spies” always manage to look like amateurs.
Would this correspond with any “hacking” of any campaign accounts…or maybe something “left” on a computer to be able to monitor computer remotely….like a “scanner” that they put on gas pumps to get cc info of customers……so many possibilities of these crooks. Whoever it is most likely didn’t expect any cameras 🙂
I simply cannot believe they do not know who this person is from facial recognition. And how stupid…surely, idiot knew there would be cameras everywhere, right? Well, he is an idiot.
Really clean shaven. Me thinks he is related to those feds…what on earth is he carrying in that backpack on his front?
Bring in the people rounding up all of those J6 parade-goers.
He may not even be a U.S. citizen. But yeah .. fed or fed connected.
reverse image search
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reverse+image+search&ia=web
Kinda surprised he didn’t think to wear COVID mask.
Didn’t Richard Nixon lose his Presidency over the Watergate Breakin of the DNC in 1973?
Yes. Great show on that by Tucker Carlson only this week, interviewing Geoff Shepard.
Nixon was set up almost exactly the same way they have tried with PDJT – he was nailed with LawFare (the first instance thereof).
I’m with suspicious cat.
Big time.
I’ll bet 75% of investigations are a lot of acting… law agencies already know what happened.
Congressional investigation of the July assassination attempt will include some hot smoke-n-mirrors, plus a lot of decline-to-answer. Then memory-holed.
He does look like a Fed. What the heck was the point?
Create Fear of our government. … It’s all conjecture right now. … We know a thugocracy uses fear as a power multiplier, to control people. … The man looks like a Fed and seems NOT to care about being identified. … Sort of like an outlaw motorcycle gang, that wears their identifying patches, while engaged in gang thuggery.
Ashburn, VA is a Washington DC suburb. … We have Trump-republicans with possible jobs within the federal bureaucracy. … Fear is used to control people, when a thugocracy is in control.
Doesn’t seem scary to me. But there’s probably a second shoe up there somewhere.
Sweep for bugs.
Our government has become a joke, a laughingstock…
but an evil and dangerous one.
If they aren’t at Mar-a-lago, maybe they’re here.
He’s just the security camera installer, returning to make sure everything was working properly. For extra cash, he moonlights as an FBI agent.
The people in the office would already know damn well what was taken or left behind. The sheriffs can’t know that because they don’t know what was already in that rather sparsely furnished space.
It isn’t all that rare to have these spaces broken into, because we have a big drug problem in this country and these places always contain items such as fax machines that can quickly be turned into cash.
That man is no junkie so what’s he want?
Eh, feds usually cover their eyes.
It’s unfortunate that so many resources are being used to find the Supreme Court leaker that it might not allow the perp to be identified.
He needed to hit the head. Give him a break. USSS has set new standard. /s
In 1973, two bumbling amateur reporters got credit for “reporting” on a similar burglary and helping the corrupt DC Deep State Establishment oust the sitting Republican President who had been elected in ’72 with the largest national popular vote (60.7%) & electoral vote (520) in history at that time. They also smeared and ousted the VP on a dubious tax evasion charge.
Are we seeing an old deep state playbook dusted off and being tried again in desperation?
I don’t see how. At this moment, PDJT is not being allowed to act as the President he was clearly elected to be in 2020. Nixon was “in charge” (well, probably not really when you think about it) – that’s how they got him.
(Sorry. I will never let go of the stolen election.)
Don’t apologize! None of us treepers will. 🙁
Well this guy is obviously no G. Gordon Liddy.
That’s exactly what he is.
you’d think after an assassination attempt, anyone caught in his area or breaking into anything of his would be identified immediately.
facial recognition, sensorbase (whatever that Google GPS locator thing is), etc..
You’re assuming that the authorities want to solve the crime.
The same ones attacking Trump for 9 years.
😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 😂
There’s a mugshot of him online from being booked on 7-19-24, charges aren’t specified.
https://bustednewspaper.com/virginia/kessler-toby-shane/20240719-091600/
Yeah- and he was already out!! This isn’t fish I smell here!!
He’s Florida Man- mug shot from April 29 in St John’s County FL.
https://stjohnsfl.mugshots.zone/kessler-toby-shane-mugshot-04-29-2024/
“Florida Man”?
Howie Carr will have a field day with that one…
Yeah most of them are junkies from all points of the compass. Sh!t rolls downhill and most of it ends up in my Sunshine State.
Then a holes from other sh!tty places make fun of Florida like there is something fundamentally wrong with the entire population.
Actually Howie Carr (who is not exactly MAGA in my opinion since he threw PDJT’s endorsement for MA governor under the bus) has a long standing joke that “Florida Man,” when it appears in the lamestream media, means an illegal alien. That’s what I expect he will make hay of if/when he discusses this – it’s entertaining.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard him disparage Florida citizens in general.
I enjoyed his show until he did his best to derail Geoff Diehl and helped a particularly nasty Dim get the MA governorship instead.
I am defensive after hearing Dana Loesch bash Florida Men on terrestrial radio after El Rushbo was replaced in the noon radio slot.