Secret Service agent’s gun, badge stolen from auto near White House

The incident, reported first by CNN, took place Monday around 4 p.m. ET near the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

The agent reportedly told police that his car’s back rear window was “unzipped” and that he saw a person reaching into his auto, but he didn’t see that person take anything.

The agent works in the Secret Service’s Presidential Protective Division which guards the president and his family, according to a CNN source.

A Secret Service agent’s gun, badge and other belongings were stolen out of his vehicle Monday near the White House.

The report said that agent, whose name was not listed in the document, then noticed “a bag with the listed property was taken out of the vehicle”.

The Secret Service just can’t seem to get a break.

This holiday season, one lucky D.C. thief nabbed him or herself a Secret Service starter pack, complete with a gun, badge, radio, handcuffs and flash drive.

The agent, who was unnamed in the police report that CNN cited, also had his handcuffs and radio stolen.

The Secret Service has been widely scrutinized since the April 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, that led to eight employees being fired.

The latest security flap comes weeks after a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report arguing that the agency was riddled with security breaches and a staffing crisis that “poses perhaps the greatest threat” to its mission.