Secret Service suggests it wasn’t behind hair salon break-in during Kamala Harris campaign event

The US Secret Service has suggested it was not involved in the break-in of a hair salon during a Kamala Harris campaign event in Massachusetts late last month.

Allegations of Secret Service involvement arose after salon owner Alicia Powers claimed agents taped over her security cameras and broke into her building by picking the lock.

Security camera footage shows an individual dressed as a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of duct tape and observing the locked door and camera before grabbing a nearby chair to tape over the camera.

“The U.S. Secret Service works closely with our business partners to carry out our protective and investigative missions,” USSS spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie said in a statement.

McKenzie said the Secret Service has been in contact with Powers since the July 27 incident.

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“We value these relationships very highly and our staff would not enter, or ask our partners to enter, a business without the owner’s permission,” McKenzie said, without specifying who was responsible.

Powers told Business Insider that “multiple people” were “in and out for about an hour and a half — just using my bathroom, alarms going off, using my counter, without permission.”

“And then when they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my building completely unlocked, and didn’t remove the tape from the camera,” she added.

Powers later said a USSS representative contacted her after Business Insider asked the agency for comment on the incident.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Powers for a response to the Secret Service’s latest comment.

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The incident comes less than a month after the assassination attempt on former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The shooting put the secret services, who were in charge of coordinating security with local law enforcement, under close surveillance.

Surveillance intensified after it was revealed that law enforcement had observed the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, and identified him as a suspect more than an hour before the shooting but lost track of him.

Crooks was able to scale the roof of a building owned by AGR International Inc., a supplier of automation equipment to the glass and plastic packaging industry, and fire about eight rounds from an AR-15-style rifle.

Under mounting pressure, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned following heated testimony before the House Oversight Committee.

Anders Hagstrom of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.