Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff fine after Secret Service incident in Manhattan

Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of likely Democratic president nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, was not in danger amid an incident involving damage to her U.S. Secret Service protective detail in New York Tuesday, officials said.

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Secret Service said an individual had approached two U.S. Secret Service vehicles parked in lower Manhattan and damaged both back license plates.

"Secret Service Agents quickly detained the individual until local authorities arrived and placed the individual into police custody," the statement said. "At no point was any protectee in danger as a result of this incident."

The person arrested for trying to take or damage two U.S. Secret Service vehicle license plates – actually damaging the license plate bracket on one car -- in lower Manhattan likely had no idea he was dealing with the Secret Service and is not believed to be in any way a threat to any protectee, according to a senior law enforcement official.

The man faces two low-level charges by the NYPD, according to the official.

The man is identified as Harry Heymann and he faces two low-level charges by the NYPD, the official says. The man spoke with law enforcement after he damaged a second Secret Service car and based on that interview investigators believe the man likely had no idea the cars were Secret Service vehicles or whom they were protecting if anybody, the official says.

Apparently, the man has posted on Twitter his concerns about vehicle parking in the neighborhood previously.