An off-duty Secret Service officer was arrested and accused of masturbating in a hotel hallway after working a security assignment involving President Donald Trump.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office in Florida arrested John Spillman, 33, for indecent exposure following an alleged incident at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center late Sunday, May 3, per multiple reports, including local news station WSVN, CNBC and TMZ.
Hotel guests told police officers “they were downstairs in the hotel lobby, and the defendant followed them” at around 12 a.m., WSVN reported, citing an arrest report. They then “saw the defendant masturbating next to their hotel room.”
Hotel security found “the defendant with his pants lowered and masturbating on the sixth floor,” the arrest report said, per WSVN.
Spillman was off-duty at the time and was being held at Miami-Dade County Jail in lieu of a $1,000 bond as of early Monday, May 4, reported CNBC. He has since been placed on leave by the Secret Service.
Spillman was reportedly part of a perimeter security detail at the Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami, where Trump, 79, attended the 2026 PGA Cadillac Championship on Sunday.
“We are aware of the arrest of an off-duty Secret Service officer by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The alleged conduct is unacceptable and stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity that I demand of our personnel,” Richard Macauley, Chief of the Uniformed Division of the U.S. Secret Service, said in a statement to Us Weekly on Tuesday.
“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,” Macauley added.
Us has reached out to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office for comment.
The incident comes just over a week after a Secret Service agent was shot at after gunfire broke out at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, was apprehended in connection with the incident and charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
Allen also faces charges of transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, the U.S. Justice Department said on April 26 after Allen was arraigned. He did not enter a plea at the arraignment hearing.
“Cole Allen now faces the full weight of federal justice,” Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press release at the time. “This alleged assassin was stopped because of the courage and professionalism of law enforcement officers who responded without hesitation by doing their jobs. Because of them, the President of the United States, administration officials and all attendees at the dinner were safe. Make no mistake: deranged attacks on our elected officials will never go unpunished.”
