Seattle rapper’s house invaded, burglarized with 3 children present

Rapper

Macklemore

’s home on

Seattle’s Capitol Hill

was broken into and

burglarized

this weekend, the Seattle Police Department said.

Shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched after a caller reported that two men had entered a home, doused her with bear spray and were still inside the house where three children also were, according to a police report.

Police said the incident happened at a house that belongs to a “high-profile individual,” with the name of the owner redacted in the police report. But the address listed in the report appears to match that on Macklemore’s voting record.

The report did not say whether Macklemore was in the home at the time.

The woman, later identified as a nanny caring for the kids, told an officer she had put the kids to bed when she saw two men entering from a patio door before one of them doused her with bear spray, according to the report.

The woman told police that the man began helping her clean the spray out of her eyes, “for some unexplainable reason” and said he looked “fearful,” according to the report.

The other man asked where the “jewels” were, and she led them to valuable items in the home, according to the report. The men took jewelry, watches and shoes before pushing the woman to the ground and taking her phone, the report states.

“Thousands of dollars of items” were stolen, police said in a separate incident report.

The woman told officers she bit one of the men then ran out of the house. She knocked on several neighbors’ doors before one of them let her in to call 911, according to the report.

The men were later seen on video fleeing the house, the police report says.

The report does not say that firearms were used, and the woman told officers she did not see firearms. She told police the two men were wearing face masks, gloves and vests “looking tactical in nature.”

The three children were uninjured, and police put them in the care of family members, according to the report.

The incident comes days after a Seattle man was charged with targeted home burglaries of four Seattle-area professional athletes, including former Seattle Seahawks football player Richard Sherman and Seattle Mariners outfielder Julio Rodríguez.

Seattle Times staff reporters Mike Carter and Paige Cornwell contributed to this story.