Officials with the State Department said this week they are investigating a security incident that happened with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
According to reports, while on last week’s trip to Europe, a Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) shift supervisor on Rubio’s detail reportedly was arrested and released following an altercation with local police.
The State Department spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the DSS is “aware of allegations of an incident involving an employee in Brussels” last Monday.
“While we don’t discuss specific personnel matters, the allegations are being examined,” the spokesperson added.
According to another report from The Washington Examiner, a senior shift supervisor was arrested March 31 at Brussels’s Hotel Amigo, where Rubio was staying.
The Examiner report stated that the bodyguard was acting “erratically” and became irritated when the hotel’s staff would not open its bar after business hours. After trying to convince the member of Rubio’s security detail to go to his room, the bodyguard got physically aggressive and law enforcement was called to the scene.
The agent got into an altercation with police officers and was arrested, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity, according to the Examiner report.
DSS is the State Department’s security agency that protects diplomats and combats transnational crimes such as passport and visa fraud.