How attacker evaded cameras, security, police to get inside Nancy Pelosi’s home
by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Nov 02, 2022
4 minutes
Sometime around 2 a.m. Friday, a private security guard noticed a man dressed in all black and walking with a backpack near the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi.
Authorities say that man was David DePape and the bag contained zip ties, a rope and a hammer.
His goal, federal prosecutors allege, was to kidnap and torture the House speaker and then potentially move on to other high-profile targets.
What he didn’t know was that Nancy Pelosi was not at home that morning, and the only person in the house was her husband, Paul Pelosi.
But the speaker’s absence —
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