Mystery over Mar-a-Lago incident that sent police racing to help Secret Service

Secret Service and Palm Beach police declined to give details about an unspecified incident at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Officers were called to the resort Monday night to assist Secret Service, according to the incident report. However, most of the report is redacted due to “criminal investigative or intelligence information received from other states or the federal government,” Staci Mussmacher, a records specialist with the police department, told the Washington Examiner.

Palm Beach police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick said that the Secret Service was leading the investigation into the matter and his department had no comment.

“As a matter of practice the Secret Service does not confirm or comment on the absence or existence of our criminal investigations,” a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement.

Trump and his family departed on Sunday to return to Washington, D.C., after spending the holidays in Palm Beach.

Shortly before Trump left Palm Beach International Airport for the White House, a Florida man who was dishonorably discharged from the Marines for sex offenses was arrested after breaching Trump’s airport security by allegedly impersonating a federal law enforcement officer.

In the last year, two Chinese nationals had breached security and entered the club’s grounds.

Last month, Jing Lu, 56, was told to leave after trying to enter Mar-a-Lago via the main gate. She then entered the property through a service driveway and was seen on security footage taking photos, according to police documents.

In November, Yujing Zhang, 33, was sentenced to time served for trespassing and lying to federal agents about why she was at the resort in March. A receptionist who was suspicious of Zhang alerted Secret Service to the Chinese businesswoman, who had originally said she was there to swim. Zhang is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as she awaits deportation.

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