Apology issued from Secret Service over salon break-in, bathroom use

The head of the Boston-based field office of the Secret Service has apologized for breaking into a salon on July 27 to allow agents and others to use the bathroom during a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris without permission from the owner.

Berkshires businesswoman Alicia Powers reported that a Secret Service agent covered her security camera with tape and then broke the lock on her building. After a number of different people used the bathroom over about two hours, Powers said they left the building unlocked and vacant.

After first denying that they had broken in, they apologized for doing so.

"He said to me everything that was done was done very wrong,” Powers told Business Insider. “They were not supposed to tape my camera without permission. They were not supposed to enter the building without permission.”

The salon was behind the theater where the fundraiser was held. The owner decided to close on Saturday because of the high security presence in the area and the "chaos" it brought.

If the Secret Service had asked to use the salon's bathroom, Powers said she would have invited them in and fed them donuts. “But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask for permission. They just helped themselves," she said.