Elijah Cummings Confronted Burglar, His Wife Took Pics: Police

BALTIMORE, MD — When a man broke into the building in the middle of the night where U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife live, the couple did not call 911 right away. After the intruder got in, they took action. Hours later, the congressman's wife, Maya Rockeymoore, contacted authorities.

Two exterior doors lead to the residential part of the apartment building where the couple lives on the first and second floor in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue, according to the police report.

Around 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, they were alerted by a cell phone application connected to their security system that there was an intruder, the report said.

A stranger had gone in the first door, which leads to the street and is unlocked. Then somehow he entered through the second door, which requires a key and is alarmed, the police report says.

Upon being alerted to the break-in, Cummings "confronted the suspect and yelled," according to a police report from the incident obtained by Baltimore Patch.

"I scared the person away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residential portion of the house," Cummings said in a statement provided to Fox 45.

His wife went downstairs and saw the man with a dark-colored bicycle in the foyer, police said. She took cell phone pictures of him as he closed the front door and disappeared outside, where he headed south on Madison Avenue by bicycle, the report said.

Police said nothing was reported stolen.

The burglar was described as a black man in his early 40s who was 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 9 inches tall and 170 pounds. He had a dark brown complexion and short black hair and was wearing khaki shorts, a dark short-sleeved shirt, dark tennis shoes with white ankle socks and a black fitted hat with an upside-down red "U" shape on it.

The police report was time-stamped 8:52 a.m. on Saturday. It said that the resident contacted a police sergeant hours after the burglary but did not call 911. The sergeant requested crime lab technicians, who checked for prints at the residence, according to the police report.

Investigators could not verify whether the suspect had broken in because there was damage to the door from a previous incident involving the fire department, the report said.

As the congressman's wife was dealing with the police report, President Donald Trump had started a series of tweets that mentioned Cummings and derided his district as a "very dangerous" place.

The tweets began around 7:15 a.m. Saturday and continued through Friday morning before 8 a.m.

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