Summary
A US Diplomatic Security Service agent in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s advance security team was arrested in Brussels on March 31, 2025, after becoming aggressive when Hotel Amigo staff refused to extend bar hours.
The agent allegedly fought with responding police officers before being released following US Embassy intervention.
The State Department acknowledged the incident is “being examined” amid reports of Rubio’s security detail being stretched “to a near-breaking point.”
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Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Washington Examiner that the agent in question was “behaving erratically” and “became irate” when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar beyond its normal hours, the US media reports.
I mean - USSS has a reputation to uphold. Of being drunken, coke-snorting fuckups.
Not really.
There was the Columbia brothel thing, but unless you’ve been to Cartegenia, you don’t understand how plausible it is to not realize you’re in a brothel for hours.
It’s a blurry line when drunk and you definitely get steered to them by locals, even if you just ask for a place to drink, because they all serve cheap drinks so you use their other services.
But like, it’s 100% legal. It’s not going into a seedy underbelly like people assume, it could be a bar on the main strip thousands of people walk by daily.
USSS earned their reputation over many decades. That is not the only incident (and if I recall correctly, that incident was a lot more “involved” than your description).
USSS earned their reputation over many decades
Thanks for all the examples!
Ok. One of the first ones I remember reading about a few decades ago got a lot of news coverage at the time. In San Diego a bunch of drunk Secret Service agents started a bar fight and beat the shit out of a couple guys. One of the Secret Service agents bit a mans ear off during the fight.
Everyone is blaming this solely on alcohol but I’m guessing based on his job title and the situation that steroids share some of the blame. People don’t typically get all aggro with (presumably sober and calm) hotel staff over last call if they’re just wasted.
People don’t typically get all aggro with (presumably sober and calm) hotel staff over last call if they’re just wasted.
I’ve done bar and club work. It may “not typically” happen, but it happens often enough to be a constant problem in the business. Maybe it’s 'roids, maybe the guy didn’t get his leg over last night, maybe he’s just an asshole and is always that way.
after becoming aggressive when Hotel Amigo staff refused to extend bar hours.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. How is he that much of an alcoholic, still such a poor drunk, and also simultaneously too stupid to just ask them for road beers to take with him and/or order a bottle to his hotel room? How the fuck was such a stupid motherfucker able to secure a job working for the U.S. Secretary of State?
He’s a DEI hire…a drunk entitled idiot…
DUI hire
Whelp, I guess he’s gone to that prison in El Salvador. No way to get him back. They’d the rules.
Stupid question, what does it mean when a security detail is being stretched “to a near-breaking point” and is that what normally happens when one of your bodyguards is arrested?
Such an embarrassment.
