The Service put these agents up at El Caribe, a restored colonial-style resort on the Boca Grande peninsula.
The actor Robert Wuhl, who starred in "Arli$$," the HBO show about a sports agent, showed up at the union event.
B. J. Kang, an F.B.I. agent, showed up at Mr. Lee's modest San Jose, Calif., home in 2009.
On the other hand, you could have a federal agent show up at your door and put you in jail for 10 years for gardening.
Last year, while he was producing an album for an alt-country songwriter named Rhett Miller, a real-estate agent showed up at the studio.
In an interview with DealBook, Mr. Kinnucan said that an F.B.I. agent showed up at his front door in Portland, Ore., at 7 30 on Friday morning and served him with a subpoena, just as his children were leaving for school.
When the agent showed up at the appointed time with the check and a locksmith to rekey the doors, the couple was still carrying things out to their battered Ford Windstar: a big-screen TV, a huge teddy bear, a steaming pot of beef stew for the evening meal.
And in October 2001, an F.B.I. agent showed up at the Whitney Museum, where Lombardi's drawing "BCCI-ICIC-FAB, c. 1972-1991 (4th Version), 1996-2000," whish in in the museum's permanent collection, was on view, to examine it for information on Al Qaeda's financial network.
When it was our turn, the agent looked up at me and asked, "Can I help you?" "Sir, I don't know if you recognize me, but about three hours ago, I did something inappropriate.
When an undercover FBI agent showed up at Candace Marie Claiborne's front door one dark and cold night in late 2011, the US State Department employee thought to herself, Who's this strange Chinese man standing outside?
