NEW: Secret Service Agent Faulted For Butler Mishaps Suspended For Hiding Marriage To Foreign National

A Secret Service agent faulted in the security breakdown at President Donald Trump’s Butler rally is now under a new internal investigation after allegedly hiding a marriage to a foreign national for months, according to documents and sources familiar with the case.

The agent, Miyo Perez, is on administrative leave and has been placed on “DO NOT ADMIT” status while the agency investigates whether she violated mandatory reporting rules by marrying a Brazilian national and not disclosing it for roughly nine months, sources said.

Perez has now been suspended three times in a little more than a year, according to the same sources.

Perez drew scrutiny after congressional investigations into the Butler failures faulted her for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on the sloped roof of the American Glass Building. That was the rooftop where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired shots during the outdoor rally.

Lawmakers also questioned why the Secret Service put an inexperienced agent in a key operational role for a high-risk event with thousands of attendees. The decision drew sharper concern because top-level Secret Service officials, including current director Sean Curran, who was leading Trump’s campaign detail at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life.

Now Perez is facing a separate internal probe tied to her personal relationship.

A marriage certificate on Brevard County public records shows Perez married a Brazilian foreign national in April 2025. Sources familiar with the timeline say Perez notified the Secret Service in January, about nine months after the marriage.

The agency is examining the timing of the marriage and whether the woman was in the United States legally at the time, including whether she overstayed a visa or faced a deportation order, multiple sources told RealClearPolitics.

Sources also say Perez disclosed contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024, before the assassination attempt at Butler. Investigators are now trying to determine whether that disclosure was properly logged, whether the agency failed to act on it, or whether Perez accurately described the nature and progression of the relationship. Agents are also looking at whether Perez followed the required protocol to keep the Secret Service updated as the relationship deepened, including when the two began living together and when they married.

The case has reignited criticism inside and outside the agency over what some describe as uneven discipline involving relationships with foreign nationals.

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That concern has been amplified by past incidents, including a 2018 case in which a suspected Russian spy was reported to have worked alongside the Secret Service at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for years. Dan Bongino @dbongino said on his podcast he tried to report the spy during his time at the embassy before leaving the Secret Service in 2011 but was dismissed and told to keep quiet.

Sources in the Secret Service community have also pointed to claims that the suspected spy was involved in an affair with a senior Secret Service agent at the embassy, and that the agency handled the fallout in a way that kept the matter out of public view.

Perez’s current status remains active leave as the investigation continues.

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