Fox News is seeking a former aide to former US Senator Lori Chavez Deremar, the candidate for Labor Secretary for President Donald Trump, on alleged break-in on Tuesday in a Congressional office building.
The Capitol Police are looking for an unidentified former aide to an Oregon Republican.
The aide was working for Chavez Deremar when she worked at the house.
Arrested police after trying to bring a machete and three knives to the US Capitol a few hours before Trump arrived.
On January 11, 2021, National Guard members stand outside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC. (Sarasilviger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Authorities believe an aide broke into a closed door on a Cannon House office building around 4pm. Investigators pulled a video of the suspect.
The officer showed the image of a bearded man and asked Congressional aides if they had seen him wearing their hoodies when pulled out of the cannon garage.
Fox News Digital has contacted Capitol Police and Chavez-Deremer.
Chavez Delemer, the daughter of a member of the Teamsters, resigned from her seat in January after being appointed by Trump to lead the Department of Labor.
Police arrested at the US Capitol holding a bottle of fuel, flare gun and blow torch
Former Congressman Lori Chavez Deremar and R. Lee are attending a House Transportation Committee hearing. Her former aide is linked to a suspected break-in at the Cannon House Office Building. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
“Lori has worked tirelessly in both business and labor to build the American workforce and support the hardworking men and women in America,” Trump said on his true social platform at the time. .
“I look forward to working with her to create enormous opportunities for American workers, expanding training and apprenticeships, expanding wages, improving working conditions and regaining manufacturing jobs. .”
President Donald Trump and former lawmakers Lori Chavez Deremar, R. Lee and Trump's candidates for Labor Secretary are linked to a former aide's alleged break-in at the Cannon House office building. (Reuters, Getty Images)
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The first-term Republican lost his re-election bid to Democrat Janelle Bynum in November. Chavez Deremar is scheduled to testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (Help) on Wednesday.
