SEATTLE -- Secret Service agents stumbled upon what the Seattle Police Department called "an elaborate cash-card forgery operation" in a downtown Seattle hotel when an employee asked the agents to check on a man apparently passed out in his room.
The Secret Service was believed to be doing a security check at the hotel in advance of Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Seattle next week.
When agents were asked to check on the man, they asked housekeeping to open the hotel room door and found a sleeping man in the room along with what the SPD Blotter said was "the trappings of an elaborate cash card forgery operation."
The agents called the Seattle police. While detectives were in the process of securing a search warrant, three men allegedly connected to the forgery operation entered the hotel lobby and saw the Secret Service agents; two surrendered and one fled. After a brief chase, he was subdued.
Officers booked a 28-year-old, a 23-year-old and a 22-year-old into the King County Jail, the blotter said.