In this file photo taken on April 12, 2022 former US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campus lecture hosted by Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Ryan M. Kelly / AFP)
Washington: The FBI searched the home of former US vice president Mike Pence on Friday as part of a broader investigation into the mishandling of classified documents, US media reported.
FBI agents examined Pence's home in Carmel, Indiana after his attorneys reached an agreement with the Justice Department for the search.
Last month an aide of Pence, who is weighing a run for the presidency in 2024, found classified documents in his home, likely taken with other papers when he left the White House in January 2021.
That followed searches of the homes of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump which also turned up classified documents that were not permitted in private possession.
Former top US officials are obliged to hand over all official papers from their time in the White House to the National Archives.
A scandal ignited when FBI agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in August and found significant amounts of classified documents, after Trump maintained there weren't any.
That followed months of requests from the National Archives for all the materials Trump took with him.
Trump is being probed by an independent Justice Department prosecutor for illegally taking and retaining the classified papers, as well as obstruction for hindering the investigation.
After Trump's case erupted, classified papers were discovered in a Washington office that Biden used before he became president.
That led to FBI searches permitted by Biden in his Wilmington, Delaware home, where more documents were found, and his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, vacation home where none were found.
