As of Tuesday, a man named John Spillman was listed as a Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate charged with indecent exposure. According to multiple outlets, the 33-year-old was in Florida for an assignment as U.S. Secret Service agent.
Here’s what happened, per those reports.
To set the scene, we’ll note that the PGA returned to Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster Golf Course in Florida over the weekend for the Cadillac Championship. President Donald Trump was in attendance, with CNBC reporting that he watched from a tent near the 18th hole at his golf club as players completed the final round of the Cadillac Championship Sunday.
CNBC said Spillman had worked on exterior security screening for the president’s appearance. Later that day, he was at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center, according to an arrest report cited by local outlet WSVN.
Guests of the hotel told investigators that they were in the hotel’s downstairs lobby when Spillman started following them. Eventually, they had to “retreat to their room for safety,” the WSVN report said.
“The victim advised they immediately entered their room because she was in fear for” her life, said the police report, as cited by CNBC. Hotel security also witnessed Spillman’s indecent exposure, NBC 6 South Florida said.
Spillman allegedly followed them to their room on the sixth floor of the hotel and they saw him masturbating next to their hotel room. CNBC’s report said that police found Spillman masturbating at the end of the hallway when they arrived.
He was taken into custody just after midnight on Monday.
“According to the Secret Service, Spillman is from Marble Falls, Texas and was based in the nation’s capital,” and he was off-duty at the time of his arrest, WSVN said. A statement from Richard Macauley, chief of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, also released a statement that was mentioned by WSVN, CNBC and NBC.
“The alleged conduct is unacceptable and stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity that I demand of our personnel,” Macauley said. “This agency takes these matters with the utmost seriousness; consequently, the individual has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of this criminal matter and a complete and thorough internal investigation.”
WSVN also reported that Spillman appeared in bond court at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on Monday. It said the presiding judge “made no mention of his role with the federal government.”
Miami-Dade records showed that Spillman remained in jail on a $1,000 bond as of Tuesday. However, WSVN said he was expected to be released at some point on Tuesday morning.
News of Spillman’s arrest comes amid other recent headlines related to the Secret Service. Last weekend, Cole Tomas Allen allegedly shot an officer wearing a ballistic vest in the chest in an attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington D.C. A man also allegedly exchanged fire with Secret Service officers near the National Monument Monday, POLITICO reported.
