Secret Service broke into a Pittsfield hair salon and used the bathroom during Kamala Harris’ visit, business owner says

The Secret Service broke into the Four One Three Salon in Pittsfield during Kamala Harris’ visit in late July, used the restroom, taped over the security camera and left the door unlocked, the salon owner told reporters.

Salon owner Alicia Powers told the Berkshire Eagle that she would have “provided coffee and doughnuts for them” if the Secret Service had asked for permission, but no one contacted her or her landlord about access.

Harris visited Pittfield on July 27 for her first fundraiser since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. She was expected to raise about $1.4 million at an event at the city’s Colonial Theater. The local saloon is across the street from the Colonial Theater.

Powers told reporters the Secret Service agents apparently taped over a Ring security camera on the property, broke in, used the bathroom without cleaning up and left the door unlocked when they left. They even ate some mints on the counter, she said.

At around 8 a.m. on July 27, Powers said she received an alert from her security camera on the business’s back porch and could see a woman blocking the camera with tape. She was on an already planned vacation to Cape Cod at the time.

At 11:15 a.m., she told reporters, the alarms began going off and continued until about 12:40 p.m. Other cameras on the property showed people entering and exiting the building for two hours, Powers said. She drove home and arrived at the salon after the crowd had dispersed around 4 p.m.

Powers said she then notified Pittsfield police, who referred her to Secret Service representatives.

The Secret Service’s Boston office contacted Powers to confirm that the agency had entered the property, iBerkshire reported through an agency spokesman.

“We value these relationships highly and our staff would not enter a store or instruct our partners to enter such a store without the owner’s permission,” the spokesperson said, according to iBerkshire.

Powers said the Boston office apologized on behalf of the agency and offered to pay for any damages, cleanup costs and cover the bill for the company’s private alarm system that went off during the incident.