DOVER, Del. – A Secret Service officer accused of trying to solicit sex from an undercover agent he thought was a 14-year-old girl has been indicted on a federal charge of trying to transfer obscene material to a minor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. An employee of the Secret Service assigned to the White House has been arrested and charged with sending sexual content to a minor, according to court documents.
WASHINGTON — Scores of US Secret Service employees improperly accessed the decade-old, unsuccessful job application of a congressman who was investigating scandals inside the agency, a new government report said Wednesday.
Washington – Secret Service plans to hire 1,100 more officers and agents for an agency besieged by embarrassing scandals and security lapses, two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the plans said.
LOS ANGELES – A man with a loaded handgun was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday as he tried to drive through a security checkpoint outside a business where Vice President Joe Biden was due to speak a few hours later, police said.
A Secret Service agent has been placed on administrative leave amid an investigation into allegedly lewd texts sent to a woman following an event with first lady Michelle Obama.
Two senior Secret Service agents were “more likely than not” impaired by alcohol when they drove a government vehicle through a secure area at the White House earlier this year, a government watchdog concluded in a report released late Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, – The alarm protecting the Houston home of former President George H.W. Bush was broken for more than a year, raising more concerns about the Secret Service and the safety of the Bush family, according to a report to be released Thursday.
A person who scaled and cleared the White House fence on Sunday night was immediately arrested, the Secret Service said.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said Sunday that Secret Service officials will talk to panel members this week about the gyrocopter that recently landed on the lawn at Capitol Hill.