Cincinnati Bengals star quarterback Joe Burrow's Ohio home was burglarized this week, making him the most recent high-profile athlete to be the victim of such crime.
Burrow's home in Anderson Township was broken into between Sunday afternoon and Monday night, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said.
The incident was reported about 11 p.m. Monday, an incident report indicates. Burrow and his teammates were in Arlington, Texas, on Monday night taking on the Dallas Cowboys, a game the Bengals won.
Officials said in the report that a woman who works for Burrow told deputies that when she arrived at the home in the Cincinnati suburb, she discovered that a bedroom window was shattered and the room had been ransacked. The report said Burrow was out of town and could not provide details of what might have been taken.
The woman, however, provided deputies with a "non detailed itemization of what items were possibly missing," the report said. Deputies also contacted neighbors looking for possible security video that could identify any suspects.
A representative for Burrow and the Bengals did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Burrow joins a growing list of high-profile athletes, including the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, who have reported home break-ins in recent months.
The NFL and the NBA have warned their athletes about “well-organized, sophisticated” transnational crime rings and urged them to safeguard valuables and be mindful about publicly sharing any information about their whereabouts and homes and luxury items they might own.
The FBI said last month it was collaborating with local law enforcement agencies to determine whether a recent cluster of burglaries at the homes of professional athletes was connected to a transnational crime ring.
Authorities have not determined whether the Burrow break-in was related.
In October, Mahomes’ and Kelce’s homes were burglarized only hours apart, authorities and police reports said. The reports were made about the time the Chiefs were playing a home game.
Officers were sent to Mahomes’ house in Belton, Missouri, shortly after midnight Oct. 6, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said. A report did not specify whether anything was taken.
Kelce’s home, which is about 10 miles away, in Leawood, Kansas, was broken into the next day. Twenty-thousand dollars was taken, according to a police report obtained by NBC affiliate KSHB of Kansas City.
The homes of athletes in other professional sports have also recently been broken into.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis posted a video on Instagram on Nov. 3 saying “prized possessions” were stolen from his home during his team’s game the previous day.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune also reported in September that thieves broke into the home of Minnesota Timberwolves guard Mike Conley Jr. while he was at a Minnesota Vikings game.
