Burglars who broke into rapper Macklemore’s Seattle residence while his three children were home maced his nanny during the home invasion, according to authorities.

It’s unclear whether the wife of the 41-year-old “Thrift Shop” rapper, real name Benjamin Haggerty, was present when a Seattle Police Department blotter says “thousands of dollars of items” were stolen from the $2.1 million home around 1 a.m. local time Saturday. TMZ reports Macklemore was performing in Ireland at the time.

A police report says Macklemore’s kids were unharmed and put in the care of relatives, per a police report viewed by The Seattle Times.

The nanny, whose name has not been released, was the one to call in the robbery from a neighbor’s house after she escaped, according to the report. TMZ published home security footage of her banging on a neighbor’s door and crying for help.

Though the robbers’ were wearing vests that appeared “tactical in nature,” firearms were not mentioned in the report, nor did the nanny see any.

The report states that the nanny had just put the children to bed when she saw two men entering the home from the patio. One of the intruders used bear mace spray on her before trying to clean it from her eyes “for some explainable reason.”

Police say the other robber demanded she show them to the “jewels,” so the nanny took the men to the valuables, after which they grabbed her phone and shoved her to the ground.

A Seattle man was charged last week with burglarizing the homes of Seattle Mariners outfielder Julio Rodríguez and former Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman as well as two other area athletes. It’s unclear whether there’s any connection to the incident at Macklemore’s home.

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