COPS are scrambling to find a laptop containing the floor plans for Trump Tower, details about the Hillary Clinton email probe - which was swiped from a Secret Service agent’s motorcycle police said.

The portable computer was stolen in Brooklyn on Thursday morning, reported the New York Post.

4 Secret Service stand guard outside Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in New York City Credit: Getty Images

Several coins and a black bag with the Secret Service insignia on it, which were later recovered at Poly Prep High School, were also taken — along with other sensitive documents, sources said.

“The US Secret Service can confirm that an employee was the victim of a criminal act in which our Agency issued laptop computer was stolen,” the agency said in a statement Friday.

“Secret Service issued laptops contain multiple layers of security including full disk encryption and are not permitted to contain classified information. An investigation is ongoing and the Secret Service is withholding additional comment until the facts are gathered.”

4 Authorities have been frantically searching for the laptop since it was stolen Thursday morning Credit: Getty Images

The thief showed up to Argentieri’s home around 8:40 a.m. in a separate car, walked right up to her motorcycle and took the items. He was then caught on video fleeing the scene, sources said.

Argentieri told investigators that the laptop held sensitive information about national security, the floor plans for Trump Tower, evacuation protocols and details about the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

While none of the info pertains to White House officials or foreign leaders, she said it could ultimately compromise national security.

Sources said the laptop cannot be remotely erased or traced.

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The person who took the device also swiped Argentieri’s access keycard and several lapel pins that Secret Service agents are required to wear when protecting the president, sources said.

The NYPD is currently assisting the Secret Service in their investigation. It is unclear if the theft was targeted or simply a random act.

The items that were recovered were found at Polly Prep and were eventually returned to Argentieri. Sources said somebody had brought them to the school and left them there.

The laptop and the lapel pins were still missing as of 2:30 p.m. Friday, the sources said.

The Secret Service has had a long and embarrassing track record over the past few years.

4 Police sources said the stolen laptop contained floor plans for Trump Tower Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images

4 It also contained information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and other national security information Credit: AP:Associated Press

A Congressional investigation in 2015 found that it had transformed into an “agency in crisis” — entrenched in low morale, heavy boozing and dimwitted security decisions.

In Sept. 2014, President Obama’s Secret Service detail allowed a security guard with a gun and three prior convictions for assault and battery into an elevator with him for a photo.

In Nov. 2011, they managed to go four whole days without realizing that someone had shot up the White House.

Two years after that, a pair of agents allegedly got hammered drunk and interfered in a bomb investigation outside the building.

In 2014, a man was able to bypass Obama’s security detail and speak to him — by pretending to be a congressman.

Most recently, two Secret Service agents came under investigation after snapping selfies with President Trump’s 8-year-old grandson, Donald III, last weekend.



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