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A driver for former first lady Michelle Obama, who happens to be a Secret Service employee, but not an agent, has been charged with criminal harassment and intimidation.
The incident is alleged to have occurred on Martha’s Vineyard and now the man, Douglas Vines, 53, was arraigned in Edgartown District Court on October 7, CBS News reported.
An Oak Bluffs Police Department police report filed last month states that a woman told police she had been dating Vines for about two months when he said he wanted to have sex with her one evening, but she decided she didn’t want to.
The woman said Vines then went “off the handle,” alternating between calling her and shouting at her, and texting her about how she was “messing with the wrong person,” according to the report. The woman said Vines used his position as a driver for the Obama family to intimidate her “while attempting to get her to come back out and have sex with him,” the report says.
According to the report, the woman said Vines told her that he could “ping” her cell phone, read her text messages, get into her phone and that he had her DNA. Vines told the woman he had recorded her without her knowledge when she talked about her citizenship status and that he would have her deported, the report says.
“Vines was also threatening to release the photos he had of her along with getting her deported if she went to the police,” the report said.
The photos included consensual nude and semi nude photos.
The report said that the victim said “there were multiple times that he would try to video or photograph her when they were having sex and she would tell him no,” and she “reiterated that she was in distress about the consensual and non-consensual nude photos or videos that he had of her because he told her he had more and would use them against her.”
“Consistent with our protocols, the employee has been placed on administrative leave, and their security clearance has been suspended. The employee has been restricted from accessing any Secret Service facility or protected site,” Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said.
The suspension “means he will be removed from President Obama’s detail until the criminal component and our personnel investigation is concluded.”
This week two Secret Service Uniformed Division officers were hospitalized after making a traffic stop in Washington, D.C., and being exposed to a white powdery substance.
“Shortly before 11a.m., Secret Service Uniformed Division made a traffic stop in the 1700 Blk of New York Avenue. During the stop, officers came in contact with a powdery substance believed to be suspected narcotics. One individual taken into custody and officers are being evaluated,” the Secret Service’s Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.
CBS News reporter Nicole Sganga later reported that the officers were exposed to “horse tranquilizer.”
“Officers with the Secret Service Uniformed Division made a traffic stop in the 1700 Block of New York Avenue in Washington, D.C. around 11 a.m. Tuesday. During the stop, officers came in contact with what USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described as a ‘powdery substance believed to be suspected narcotics,'” Fox News reported.
The incident occurred about 2 miles from the U.S. Naval Observatory, which is where Vice President Kamala Harris lives. One individual was taken into custody and officers were evaluated.
Harris has also been dealing with busloads of migrants being shipped to her residence in Washington, D.C.
Last month, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent another busload of around 50 undocumented immigrants to the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. And six more buses of migrants, sent from El Paso, Port Authority officials, arrived in New York City.
“The D.C. bus carried people mostly from Venezuela, including a one-month-old baby. Aid workers quickly whisked the migrants away to a local shelter,” the report said.
