The Secret Service can’t stay out of trouble these days.
Agents are in the middle of another scandal.
Now the Secret Service is in more hot water after this campaign break-in was exposed.
Secret Service agents break into a small business
The near assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, raised serious questions about the Secret Service.
Problems with agents working on protective details aren’t isolated to Trump.
The Secret Service detail for Vice President Kamala Harris was caught breaking into a small business during a campaign event.
She held a campaign fundraiser at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts featuring musicians James Taylor and Yo-Yo Ma.
The Four One Three Salon near the theater was closed on the day of the fundraiser because of the commotion surrounding it.
But that didn’t stop Secret Service agents from breaking into the salon to use the bathroom.
Salon owner Alicia Powers said she would have given the agents permission to use the facility if they had asked.
“I’m the kind of person that would have set up coffee and doughnuts for them had they asked me for permission,” Powers said.
But the agents decide to barge in unannounced and make the place their own.
“Instead, they taped over a security camera on the back porch, broke into the salon, helped themselves to the bathroom, ate the mints on the counter, and left without tidying up the bathroom or locking the back door on the way out,” The Berkshire Eagle reported.
The U.S. Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered her security camera with duct tape and broke into her salon by picking the lock so that its bathroom could be used by various people for a two-hour period.
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No one from the Secret Service contacted Powers or her landlord about using the salon.
Local business owner furious at Secret Service for breaking in
The Secret Service claimed that they had permission to enter the salon.
Powers is upset and disrespected by what the agents did.
“When they cleaned up and they left the tape on my camera and they left my back door completely unlocked,” Powers said. “What could have happened in that hour and a half or two hours that you guys left the building unlocked?”
The building’s landlord, Brian Smith, told Business Insider that he never gave the Secret Service permission to enter the salon.
“Me and my dad own the building, and I have a crazy eccentric guy that lives upstairs,” Smith said. “And he didn’t tell the Secret Service they could use it, and I didn’t tell them, and my father didn’t tell them, and they had no permission to go in there whatsoever.”
Powers’ camera and security system alerted her that agents were in and out of her salon for two hours.
“From the communication I’ve heard from the EMS workers, somebody dressed in all black was telling them to come in and use the bathroom all afternoon,” Powers recalled.
When she confronted the New York Secret Service, they tried to get her to drop the issue.
“And he kind of ended the conversation with telling me, ‘Do you think we need to deal with this right now with what we have going on?’ And my response was, ‘Sir, I’m not trying to be rude but I don’t deserve to deal with this right now either,’” Powers stated.
The Secret Service’s unprofessional behavior is another black mark on the embattled agency.
