“We are incredibly grateful that the Barkley family was not injured during this incident,” said the Tredyffrin Township Police Department
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An attempted burglary occurred at Saquon Barkley’s Pennsylvania home on Saturday, July 18
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The Philadelphia Eagles running back was inside the property with his family at the time of the incident
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According to police, the NFL star and his family were not harmed in the incident
Saquon Barkley‘s family home in Pennsylvania was targeted by burglars.
In a social media post on Saturday, July 18, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office confirmed a “home invasion” occurred at the residence of the 29-year-old Philadelphia Eagles running back in Tredyffrin Township earlier that morning.
“We are incredibly grateful that the Barkley family was not injured during this incident,” the district attorney wrote on Facebook. “We are asking the public to help us identify those responsible by checking any home security cameras for suspicious activity in the area around 5:00 a.m.”
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As the Tredyffrin Township Police Department Detective Division and the Chester County District Attorney’s Office continue to investigate the burglary, detectives believe a large white SUV may have been involved in the incident.
“We know there’s more than one, but we’re still trying to determine how many were involved,” Capt. Tyler Moyer of the Tredyffrin Township Police Department said of the suspects who allegedly fled the scene when officers arrived, per NBC 10. “All of the occupants in the home were physically okay, obviously a little unsettled as anybody would be, but nobody was harmed.”
Police said Barkley and his family were home during the burglary. The NFL star shares two children — Jada, 8, and Saquon Jr., 3 — with his fiancée, Anna Congdon.
Though investigators believe that nothing in Barkley’s home was stolen, the incident follows a series of burglaries at high-profile athletes’ homes in recent years.
In May, police in Chile announced that they arrested three people wanted by the FBI for allegedly robbing the homes of sports stars in 2024 and 2025 — including Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Luka Dončić, Juan Martín del Potro and more.
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“We will look at all angles of this because we know, obviously, it’s been all over the news in the past few years about different professional athletes’ homes getting burglarized,” Moyer said of the recent incident, per NBC 10.
An FBI report obtained by ABC News in December 2024, suggested that the homes of professional athletes were being targeted for burglary “due to the perception they may have high-end goods like designer handbags, jewelry, watches, and cash.”
The report then alleged that organized theft groups in South America burglarized the homes of at least nine professional athletes between September and November 2024 after using surveillance and social media activity to determine when they would be out of their homes.
“These preparation tactics enable theft groups to conduct burglaries in a short amount of time,” the report stated. “Organized theft groups bypass alarm systems, use Wi-Fi jammers to block Wi-Fi connections and disable devices, cover security cameras and obfuscate their identities.”
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