The Secret Service still employs the agent who left the Butler rooftop unguarded the day Trump nearly died.
She just got suspended for the third time.
And what investigators just found out about her personal life could be the thing that finally ends her career.
Miyo Perez Suspended Again After Butler Assassination Attempt
Secret Service agent Myosoty "Miyo" Perez served as the site agent for the July 13, 2024, Butler rally – the agent personally responsible for planning and executing Trump's security that day.
She left the AGR building rooftop unsecured.
Thomas Crooks climbed it, aimed his rifle, and came within inches of killing the President of the United States.
For that, Perez received a 42-day suspension – the longest handed down to any agent in the entire agency.
RealClearPolitics reporter Susan Crabtree broke the new story: Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the Secret Service. Her marriage certificate appeared on Brevard County public records. Sources say she didn't tell the agency until January – nine months after the ceremony.
The agency suspended her and issued an internal "Do Not Admit" notice.
Secret Service Agent Married Illegal Immigrant and Said Nothing for Nine Months
This isn't a paperwork violation.
Secret Service agents hold security clearances that require them to proactively report foreign contacts, significant life changes, foreign travel, and shifts in marital status. The protocol exists because foreign relationships create leverage – and leverage gets people killed.
Investigators are now examining whether Perez's wife had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order at the time of the marriage. If she married a woman she knew to be in the country illegally and said nothing for nine months, that is a judgment failure of a different magnitude entirely.
Former Secret Service official Rich Staropoli was blunt: "How does a Secret Service agent not properly report a relationship with a foreign national that could be an illegal alien, let alone marry her and then not report the marriage?"
Sources inside the agency say Perez had disclosed contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 – before Butler.
The Secret Service may have lost that notification or failed to act on it. Investigators don't yet know whether Perez accurately described the nature of the relationship at the time, or whether she kept the agency updated as it deepened into cohabitation and then marriage.
Secret Service Has a History of Covering Up Foreign National Relationships
The Secret Service has a documented history of looking the other way when agents form relationships with foreign nationals.
In 2018, a suspected Russian spy was exposed after working inside the U.S. embassy in Moscow for more than a decade. Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino says he raised concerns about her before leaving the agency and was told to keep his mouth shut.
The same woman was allegedly involved in an affair with the top Secret Service agent at the embassy – who was later allowed to retire quietly rather than face formal discipline.
More recently, an agent from the Miami Field Office – the same office where Perez works – was fired after engaging in a sexual affair with at least one foreign national while assigned to Lima, Peru.
The FBI arrested IRGC-linked operative Asif Raza Merchant the day before the Butler rally – a Pakistani national who had traveled to Iran and returned to recruit assassins on American soil.
Senior intelligence officials warned afterward that Iran had been actively probing U.S. protective services for vulnerabilities. One former senior intelligence official said Iranian networks were "wittingly or unwittingly" receiving support from inside America's security agencies.
And through all of this, Perez remained employed.
The Agents Who Approved Perez's Butler Security Plan Got Promoted
The supervisors who signed off on Perez's security plan for Butler – the plan that left a rooftop unsecured with an Iranian threat active – didn't get suspended. They got promoted.
Supervisors Nick Menster and Nick Olszewski walked the Butler site with Perez and signed off on her plan. According to congressional investigators, not one of them asked who was covering the AGR building.
The Senate found that the Secret Service fired nobody for Butler and formally disciplined only six personnel. Menster was assigned to run Eric Trump's detail. Olszewski became chief of the Inspection Division – the office responsible for ensuring accountability and integrity at the Secret Service.
The Pittsburgh field office agents got the suspensions. The supervisors who approved the plan got the promotions.
Markwayne Mullin just inherited an agency that nearly let Trump get assassinated, covered for the people who made it happen, and still hasn't fired the agent whose name is on every failure. Miyo Perez needs to go.
The Secret Service still needs massive changes after repeated failures.
Sources:
- Susan Crabtree, "Secret Service Agent Faulted for Butler Failures Suspended Again," RealClearPolitics, March 20, 2026.
- Ken Silva, "Secret Service Agent from Butler Shooting Now Suspended for Secretly Marrying Foreigner," Headline USA, March 20, 2026.
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Butler Investigation Report, July 2025.
- Fox News Staff, "Secret Service suspended 6 agents post-Butler. Here are other changes," Fox News, July 10, 2025.
