BREAKING: FBI Executes Search Warrant At Washington Post Reporter’s Home

The FBI searched the Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson on Wednesday as part of an investigation into “a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials,” the newspaper said.

Natanson was home at the time agents executed the warrant. According to the Post, the warrant said investigators were probing Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a Maryland-based system administrator with top secret security clearance who is accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports that were allegedly found in his lunchbox and in his basement. The Post cited an FBI affidavit.

Natanson covers “the Trump administration’s reshaping of the government and its effects,” according to her X bio. Her home and electronic devices were searched.

Hannah Natanson (Harvard Crimson publication)

Perez-Lugones is an American citizen born in Miami who now lives in Laurel, Maryland, according to a criminal complaint. He has worked as a government contractor since 2002 and holds top secret security clearance.

The complaint alleges that at least one document found in Perez-Lugones’ basement was related to national defense.

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The Washington Post reported that Natanson has been involved in some of the paper’s most sensitive coverage during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Natanson told her employer that agents seized a phone and a Garmin watch.

The Washington Post told Fox News Digital that it is “reviewing and monitoring the situation.”

This is a developing story.