United States Secret Service
U.S. federal law enforcement agency
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| April 11 2025 | Shawn Monper was arrested for posting multiple assassination threats against Trump on social media. He had purchased guns and ammunition in preparation for a potential mass shooting. |
| February 11 2025 | Nikita Casap, a 17-year-old follower of the Order of Nine Angles, was accused of plotting to assassinate President Trump as part of a plan to instigate a race war, after murdering his mother and stepfather. |
| January 16 2025 |
Sai Varshith Kandula was sentenced to eight years in prison for his White House attack attempt, during which he expressed admiration for the Third Reich and intentions to 'seize power'.
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District of Columbia | Attempted Attack on the White House with a Rented Box Truck Results in 8-Year Sentence for Missouri Man | United States Department of Justice
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| September 2024 | An Iranian official ordered agents Farjad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera, and Jonathon Loadholt to formulate a plan to kill Trump before the election. They were charged with murder-for-hire and related offenses. |
| September 15 2024 | Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted by a Secret Service agent holding an SKS-style rifle on Trump's private golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. After a 12-hour standoff and a brief chase, he was detained without incident. His trial is set to begin on September 8, 2025. |
| July 2024 | Counter Sniper Team shot and killed Thomas Matthew Crooks during an attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| July 23 2024 | Kimberly Cheatle resigned as Secret Service director following her testimony about the July 13 assassination attempt, which she acknowledged was 'the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades'. |
| July 12 2024 | Asif Merchant, allegedly an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps agent, was arrested for a plot to kill Trump at a rally in retaliation for Qasem Soleimani's assassination. He had paid federal agents posing as hired assassins. |
| November 12 2023 | A Secret Service agent guarding Naomi Biden fired shots at three people breaking into an unoccupied government vehicle in Georgetown. |
| August 9 2023 | Craig Deleeuw, a 74-year-old from Provo, Utah, threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden during his Utah visit. FBI special agents raided Deleeuw's residence at 6:15 am, and when he resisted arrest while armed, law enforcement shot and killed him. |
| May 22 2023 | Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from Missouri, attempted to breach White House security by driving a rented box truck into a barrier. He was arrested after being found with a Nazi flag and openly stating his intention to 'kill the president' and 'seize power'. |
| 2022 | The Secret Service assisted in seizing the hacker forum RaidForums. |
| August 24 2022 | Kimberly Cheatle was named the new director of the Secret Service, becoming the first woman to serve as assistant director of protective operations. |
| July 2022 | A Secret Service agent was sent back to the United States from Israel after indiscriminately assaulting a woman walking near a bar in Machane Yehuda. |
| July 15 2022 | The Intercept reported that the Secret Service had erased text messages from January 6 insurrection day, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riots. |
| May 2022 | PSS headquarters relocated to the Presidential Office Building following the president's office move to the defense ministry building. |
| May 24 2022 | Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, an Iraqi citizen, was arrested for plotting to assassinate former President Bush. He was accused of planning the assassination due to anger over the Iraq War, and had conducted surveillance of the Bush home in Dallas and the George W. Bush Institute. Shihab claimed connections to ISIS members and had entered the US illegally in September 2020. |
| April 2022 | Four Secret Service agents were placed on leave for accepting bribes and lavish gifts from two men impersonating federal officers. |
| January 6 2021 | Secret Service agents provided security during the Capitol riot and evacuated Vice President Mike Pence. |
| January 5 2021 | Secret Service warned Capitol Police of potential violence from Trump supporters the day before the January 6 Capitol attack. |
| October 2020 | Barry Croft Jr was reported to have included Trump in a list of politicians he wanted to kill, as part of a broader kidnapping plot. He was later sentenced to 19 years in prison in December 2022. |
| September 2020 | Ricin-containing letters addressed to Trump were intercepted by Secret Service. Canadian woman Pascale Ferrier was arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison for sending poisoned letters to Trump and law enforcement officials. |
| August 2020 | A Secret Service officer shot a man holding a comb during one of President Trump's press conferences at the White House. |
| June 1 2020 | Secret Service advanced on protesters at Lafayette Square before Park Police dispersal warnings, using pepper spray and increasing tensions during a protest. |
| April 15 2020 | The U.S. Secret Service participates in 'Operation Stolen Promise', targeting COVID-19 related fraud. By the end of 2021, they had seized over $1.2 billion in fraudulently obtained relief funds. |
| April 20 2019 | Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a member of the United Constitutional Patriots militia, was arrested after allegedly confessing to a planned assassination plot targeting Obama and Hillary Clinton. |
| October 2018 | A package containing a pipe bomb was sent to Obama's home in Washington, D.C., which was intercepted by the Secret Service. |
| October 2018 | A pipe bomb addressed to Hillary Clinton was intercepted by the Secret Service at their Chappaqua, New York home. Bill Clinton was present during the interception. The package was sent by Cesar Sayoc, who was captured two days later and sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
| October 1 2018 | An envelope laced with ricin was sent to Trump, discovered by mailing facilities. William Clyde Allen III was later arrested and charged with mailing threats against the president. |
| November 2017 | An Islamic State-affiliated man was arrested in Manila, Philippines for planning to assassinate Trump during the ASEAN Summit, after being detected by Secret Service prior to Trump's arrival. |
| September 6 2017 | Gregory Lee Leingang attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Mandan, North Dakota by stealing a forklift and trying to flip the presidential motorcade. He was arrested, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
| March 2017 | A member of Vice President Mike Pence's detail was suspended after being caught visiting a prostitute at a hotel in Maryland. |
| 2015 | Two inebriated senior Secret Service agents drove an official car into the White House complex and collided with a barrier, leading to an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. |
| September 2015 | 18 Secret Service employees accessed Jason Chaffetz's unsuccessful 2003 employment application and discussed leaking the information to media in retaliation for his investigations of agency misconduct. |
| February 2015 | Three men from New York City were arrested by the FBI after discussing plans to kill Obama and join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant with undercover agents. |
| June 2013 | Two white supremacists, Glendon Scott Crawford and Eric Feight, were arrested for a plot involving a homemade 'radiation gun', with Crawford suggesting using the device against President Obama among other targets. |
| May 2013 | Ricin-laced letters were sent to Obama and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, threatening to kill anyone attempting to take away the sender's guns. The letters were sent by actress Shannon Richardson, who attempted to frame her husband Nathan for the crime. |
| April 2013 | An attempt was made to assassinate Obama when a letter laced with ricin toxin was sent to him. |
| October 2012 | Mitchell Kusick, a mentally ill man from Westminster, Colorado, was arrested after confessing to his therapist that he intended to kill Obama with a shotgun at a campaign stop in Boulder, Colorado. |
| April 14 2012 | U.S. Secret Service placed 11 agents on administrative leave after allegations of bringing prostitutes to hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia, while on assignment to protect President Obama, with a dispute over payment the following morning. |
| November 2011 | Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21-year-old influenced by conspiracy theories, traveled from Idaho and fired several rounds from a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, breaking a window. He was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison. |
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