The latest well-known athlete to fall victim to a burglary was Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, whose Ohio home was broken into this week.
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office reports that between Sunday afternoon and Monday night, the quarterback’s Anderson Township residence was broken into.
Around 11 p.m., the incident was reported. According to an incident report, Monday. The Bengals defeated the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night in Arlington, Texas, where Burrow and his teammates were there.
According to the report, a lady who works for Burrow informed deputies that she found a bedroom window broken and the room had been looted when she got to the house in the Cincinnati suburb. Burrow was out of town and was unable to provide specifics on what might have been taken, according to the report.
“Non detailed itemization of what items were possibly missing,” the report stated, was what the woman gave deputies. In an effort to find any surveillance footage that would help identify any suspects, deputies also reached out to neighbors.
Requests for comment on Tuesday were not immediately answered by a representative for Burrow or the Bengals.
Burrow joins a rising number of well-known players who have experienced house invasions in recent months, such as Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.
The NFL and NBA have warned their players about sophisticated, well-organized transnational crime rings and advised them to protect their assets and exercise caution when disclosing information about their residences, whereabouts, and any luxuries they may own.
Last month, the FBI announced that it was working with local law enforcement to investigate whether a recent spate of burglaries targeting prominent athletes’ houses was linked to a transnational criminal organization.
Whether the break-in at the Burrow was connected has not been established by authorities.
According to police records and authorities, Mahomes and Kelce’s homes were broken into just a few hours apart in October. The Chiefs were playing a home game at the time the reports were made.
According to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, officers were sent to Mahomes’ residence in Belton, Missouri, just after midnight on October 6. Whether or if anything was taken was not specified in a report.
The following day, someone broke into Kelce’s house in Leawood, Kansas, which is roughly ten miles away. According to a police report acquired by Kansas City’s NBC affiliate KSHB, twenty-thousand dollars was stolen.
There have also been recent home invasions involving athletes from other professional sports.
On November 3, Bobby Portis, a forward for the Milwaukee Bucks, shared a video on Instagram claiming that valuable items had been taken from his house during the team’s game the day before.
In September, the Minneapolis Star Tribune also revealed that when Mike Conley Jr., a player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, was at a Minnesota Vikings game, burglars broke into his house.
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