A suspect has been arrested and a pawn shop stash of stolen celebrity goods have been uncovered after Macklemore’s house was broken into by two masked burglars who bear sprayed his children’s nanny in a horror incident.
The Seattle Police Department have taken into custody 29-year-old Patrick Maisonet after a two month investigation into violent robberies in the Washington Area according to KOMO News.
Law enforcement has probable cause to believe the longtime violent serial burglar is connected with home invasion robberies of the 41-year-old rapper – born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty – and several athletes including Seattle Seahawks legend Richard Sherman.
The arrest had been thwarted by a raid at pawn shop where cops had uncovered thousands of dollars of stolen goods linked to those people of stature including jewelry, guns, and stacks of cash.
A custom Seattle Sounders MLS Cup ring and Seahawks Super Bowl ring are believed to have been owned by Macklemore.
The owner of the pawn shop had also been booked into King County Jail on investigation of trafficking stolen property.
A suspect has been arrested and a pawn shop stash of stolen celebrity goods have been uncovered after Macklemore’s house was broken into by two masked burglars who bear sprayed his children’s nanny in a horror incident (he is seen in New York in March 2023)
Maisonet had an active arrest warrant after prosecutors had alleged he cut off an ankle monitor earlier this year as he had been serving home detention related to another home invasion robbery in 2023.
‘Some of these items belong to some of those individuals and possibly related to other (athlete) robberies,’ Detective Eric Munoz from the Seattle Police Department told KOMO News.
The law enforcement officer had described Maisonet as the ‘primary’ suspect but there is at least one other suspect on the loose as detectives are soon expected to refer criminal charges to prosecutors.
This comes as Macklemore’s nanny – who was home with his three children at the time – told police that she caught sight of the two men using a patio door to get into the Seattle home on the night of Saturday, June 7 after she had put the children to bed.
According to the police report, she said she was then hit with the bear spray – but added that immediately afterwards, one of the men looked ‘fearful’ and began ‘for some unexplainable reason’ to help her wipe her eyes.
Per the report, the other man then demanded to know the location of the ‘jewels’ and she helped them find the valuables, whereupon they seized watches, shoes and jewelry, forcing the nanny to the ground and taking her phone.
The nanny said that she managed to bite one of the intruders and flee the house, which is located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, via the Seattle Times.
A hair-raising doorbell video obtained by DailyMail.com shows the nanny frantically pounding on a neighbor’s door, trying the knob and begging: ‘Help, please!’
The Seattle Police Department have taken into custody 29-year-old Patrick Maisonet after a two month investigation into violent robberies in the Washington Area according to KOMO News; Macklemore is pictured June in Dublin
Law enforcement has probable cause to believe the longtime violent serial burglar is connected with home invasion robberies of the 41-year-old rapper – born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty – and several athletes including Seattle Seahawks legend Richard Sherman (pictured February 2014)
A custom Seattle Sounders MLS Cup ring and Seahawks Super Bowl ring are believed to have been owned by Macklemore (he showed off this Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Championship Ring on Instagram back in August 2014)
DailyMail.com had contacted Macklemore’s representative and the Seattle Police Department for comment at the time.
Macklemore was presumably out of the country at the time, as he played a concert in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, June 8.
The police report states that after escaping the house, the nanny knocked on multiple neighbors’ doors and one of them eventually admitted her, at which point she called 911.
She informed the authorities that she did not see any guns in the possession of the two home invaders, whom she described as having worn masks, gloves and vests that appeared ‘tactical in nature.’
In an incident report about the home invasion, the Seattle Police Department said that the burglars seized ‘Thousands of dollars of items.’
Video footage shows the burglars leaving the property, and they managed to vacate the scene before the authorities arrived, according to TMZ.
A police report refers to the owner of the house as a ‘high-profile individual’ while leaving his name redacted, but the home address listed on Macklemore’s voting records reportedly matches that of the property that was targeted.
Macklemore’s children were apparently unhurt in the incident and were placed in the charge of their relatives in the wake of the robbery.
Macklemore, real name Benjamin Haggerty, was presumably out of the country at the time, as he played a concert in Frankfurt, Germany on June 8; pictured in Cork, Ireland in June
The rapper has been married to his wife Tricia Davis since 2015 and they share two daughters, Sloane, 10, and Collette, seven, as well as a son called Hugo, three
Local police have confirmed that the nanny also emerged from the ordeal without sustaining any serious injuries, per the U.S. Sun.
Although the authorities were unable to make it to the property before the thieves disappeared, they did discover some clothing and a can of bear spray nearby.
The rapper has been married to his wife Tricia Davis since 2015 and they share two daughters, Sloane, 10, and Collette, seven, as well as a son called Hugo, three.
Macklemore, who hails from the Seattle suburbs, reportedly bought his Capitol Hill house for $2.1 million in 2014, according to the local real estate website Urban Living.
Spread across 2,920 square feet, the property includes three bedrooms and 2.25 bathrooms with breathtaking views of the water.
