The son of the former chair of the San Diego County Republican Party was arrested at a Scripps Ranch home earlier this week on suspicion of illegally possessing an assault weapon, sheriff’s officials said Friday.

Sheriff’s deputies were serving a search warrant on the Ann Arbor Lane home Thursday morning and subsequently arrested Victor Krvaric, 24, on suspicion of the sole count.

It’s not clear why authorities were searching the home, and the Sheriff’s Office declined to provide further detail about what they said was an ongoing investigation.

Krvaric was briefly booked into jail, then released after posting $25,000 bail. He is due to appear in San Diego Superior Court late next week.

The arrest was first reported Thursday by KPBS.

Victor Krvaric did not immediately respond Friday evening to a message left on a phone believed to be associated with him.

According to property documents obtained by 10News, the home is owned by Tony Krvaric, who chaired the local GOP between 2007 and January 2021. The elder man asked for the family’s privacy to be respected in the wake of his son’s arrest.

“As a father, I wish that the children of former public figures could experience life privately, like everyone else,” Tony Krvaric said in a statement sent to The San Diego Union-Tribune on Friday.

In February 2022, Victor Krvaric — a Marine Corps reservist at the time — was investigated by the military after allegations arose suggesting he had tried to join a White supremacist hate group.

KPBS reported several weeks later that a separate investigation exposed unrelated misconduct, and he was in the process of being administratively separated.