WEST PALM BEACH — The acting Secret Service director taking the helm of a department grappling with its failures after the Trump assassination attempt got his start as a local police officer fighting drug crimes during the crack cocaine epidemic. Ronald Rowe always wanted to be in the Secret Service, assistant West Palm Beach Police Chief Tony Spatara recalled Thursday, ever since the two went through the police academy together in 1995.

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