Justice Breyer robbed at West Indies vacation home

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Monday. The 73-year-old Breyer, wife Joanna and guests were confronted by the robber last Thursday night in the home Breyer owns on the Caribbean island of Nevis, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. The intruder took about $1,000 in cash, and no one was hurt, Arberg said. She said the robbery was reported to local authorities, but she did not know whether an arrest has been made. The U.S. Marshals Service is assisting local authorities and the Supreme Court Police with the investigation, Marshals Service spokesman Jeff Carter said. Breyer reported on his most recent annual disclosure in June that property he owns on Nevis is worth between $100,000 and $250,000. The last time a justice was the victim of a crime was in 2004, when a group of young men assaulted Justice David Souter as he jogged on the street in Washington. In 1996, a man snatched Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's purse while she was out walking with her husband and daughter near their home in Washington. Ginsburg was not hurt. The justices return from a nearly monthlong recess for a private conference on Friday. They will next meet in public on February 21. Published: Wed, Feb 15, 2012