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OPB News
April 20, 2018
In the portions of the newly unsealed transcripts, none of the FBI agents testified they heard or saw Astarita fire his weapon. But the special agent identified as I.M. told the grand jury on June 28, 2016 that Astarita stood out from his colleagues after the shooting. At the time, I.M. was asking other HRTÃâà...
The Hill
April 20, 2018
His comment was spurred by revelations that an FBI agent had masqueraded as an Associated Press reporter and fabricated an AP story. ... After a high-profile confrontation between federal agents and Nevadan ranchers in 2014, the FBI created a bogus independent film crew that spent almost a yearÃâà...
The Hill
April 20, 2018
Vox reported Friday that Trump earlier this year asked his attorney general and FBI director why agent Peter Strzok and counsel Lisa Page were still employed by the bureau. In a meeting alone with Sessions, Trump reportedly pushed for their dismissal, Vox reported. Texts between Strzok and Page fromÃâà...
OregonLive.com
April 20, 2018
Government experts say the figure in blue is FBI Hostage Rescue Team Agent W. Joseph Astarita, who is accused of lying and concealing that he fired two shots at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum as Finicum stepped out of his pickup after swerving into a snowbank. One shot hit the roof, the other missed entirely,Ãâà...
KSAT San Antonio
April 19, 2018
Allovio, who retired from the FBI in 2017, was working a kidnapping case in Laredo when he got the call to head to the Mount Carmel compound, just outside of Waco. That call came after the deadly gunfight between members of the Branch Davidian religious sect living at the compound and ATF agentsÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 19, 2018
LOUIS • A Wentzville man who was already indicted and accused of impersonating an FBI agent has now been accused of bearing a fake White House press ... A federal grand jury indicted Mark Van Ronzelen, 45, on April 4 on felony charges of impersonating an FBI special agent and possession of aÃâà...
Crime Report
April 18, 2018
How the FBI Reformed After Branch Davidian Siege. A quarter-century since federal agents and Branch Davidians died in a 51-day standoff, the Austin American-Statesman reviews the important lessons the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives learned from the episode .
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 17, 2018
A former Minneapolis FBI agent caught leaking classified documents to news outlet The Intercept pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday, as his attorneys said he did so as an “act of conscience” against the bureau's treatment of minorities. In a case that drew sharp criticism from press freedomÃâà...
New York Times
April 17, 2018
As a field agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Minneapolis office, Mr. Albury provided a reporter with two documents between February ... The Intercept article reported that F.B.I. agents “have the authority to aggressively investigate anyone they believe could be a valuable source for the bureau.
EverythingLubbock.com
April 3, 2018
FBI Special Agents in Lubbock said they are looking at lessons they can learn from this investigation. More than 500 federal agents headed to Austin to help compile tips, check surveillance video, and do phone and social media analysis. Special Agent Phillip Partin said it's called "surging resources," andÃâà...
The Hill
April 3, 2018
CNN analyst Josh Campbell, a former FBI special agent, criticized Fox News hosts on Sunday, accusing them of doing a disservice to their viewers by attacking the bureau and other institutions. Campbell said during an interview on CNN that there are a lot of good and hardworking people at Fox News.
Kansas City Star
April 3, 2018
A former federal agent who unsuccessfully sued the FBI has joined the field of more than 20 people seeking the Kansas governor's office. Michael Tabman, a native of New York City with a strong Queens accent, moved his family to Overland Park in 2000 when he was working for the FBI's Kansas City fieldÃâà...
KVRR
April 3, 2018
FARGO, N.D. — An FBI Special Agent who tracked down jewel thieves talked about his career in Fargo. Robert Wittman was part of the Town Hall Lecture Series. Wittman was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Division in 1988, specializing in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification. He was a leadÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 31, 2018
GOLDEN — A former FBI agent believes a Colorado woman wasn't killed by her husband but by a child predator targeting her 6-year-old daughter. John Larsen testified Thursday in the second murder trial of Michael Blagg, who is accused of killing his wife Jennifer Blagg in 2001. Michael Blagg says heÃâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
F.B.I. agents were aware of both inaccuracies in real time. And last March, when Congress asked the F.B.I. to investigate the attorney general, agents began doing so, two of the people said. Andrew G. McCabe, the F.B.I.'s deputy director at the time, authorized the investigation, the two people said.
KTRK-TV
March 21, 2018
A former FBI agent says the Austin bombing suspect could act out after the package explosion at a FedEx facility near San Antonio. (KTRK). KTRK. By Steven Romo. Wednesday, March 21, 2018 02:04AM. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) --. Even with top federal investigators on the case, the Austin bombings continue. In a lot ofÃâà...
Texas Monthly
March 21, 2018
Nearly two months earlier, Sage had been the first FBI negotiator to arrive on the scene after a disastrous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms raid left four federal agents and six Branch Davidians dead. Ever since, he'd been the lead negotiator, speaking frequently with Koresh and his deputy, Steve Schneider,Ãâà...
KTRK-TV
March 20, 2018
A former FBI agent says the identity of the Austin bombing suspect or suspects may surprise investigators. ... looking at all the variables, you're doing communication analysis and spatial analysis in looking at denominators between the victims, and so forth and so on," said former FBI agent Jim Conway.
The Denver Channel
March 20, 2018
DENVER – Federal agents with the ATF and the FBI from Denver are in Austin, Texas assisting with the massive law enforcement investigation into a serial bomber thought to have sent five packages this month. Spokespeople in Denver from both agencies told Denver7 Investigates that agents traveled toÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 17, 2018
Graham admitted impersonating a federal agent over three months as he demanded drugs and money from a marijuana dealer in Kiln. Authorities say he threatened the dealer with false arrest warrants and imprisonment. Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives later arrestedÃâà...
The Guardian
March 17, 2018
A 155-year-old legend about federal gold buried in a forest during the American civil war appears to have caught the attention of the FBI. Dozens of FBI agents, along with Pennsylvania state officials and members of a treasure-hunting group, trekked this week to a remote site where local lore has it that aÃâà...
Tampabay.com
March 17, 2018
Fred Humphries woke up Saturday morning and for the first time ever raised a blue and white Federal Bureau of Investigation flag on the pole in his front yard. "I was encouraged and hopeful," said Humphries, 53, in an exclusive interview with the Tampa Bay Times, reacting to the news that former FBIÃâà...
NPR
March 17, 2018
What does the politically charged firing of deputy directory Andrew McCabe mean for the bureau's morale? NPR's Michel Martin talks to longtime FBI agent and analyst James A. Gagliano. Justice Department Fires Embattled FBI Deputy Director Just Short Of RetirementÃâà...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
It should have been one or the other — that's common sense. In fairness to Mueller, when he discovered that Strzok, one of his favorite investigators, was involved in conduct unbecoming an FBI agent, he acted immediately and removed him from his team. But Mueller kept that news quiet and away from theÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 16, 2018
FBI agents and local police seized an unassembled AR-15 rifle, bomb-like devices, a bulletproof vest, 300 rounds of ammunition and a plethora of other ... The unassembled, AR-15-style weapon found in Reynolds' apartment was a Savage MSR-15 Patrol rifle, Derek Valgora, a special agent at the BureauÃâà...
Politico
March 16, 2018
said James Gagliano, a former FBI agent who is now a professor at St. John's University in New York. “The timing sucks, because it looks like this is set to happen as Trump tweets something and now they're rushing to get this guy. It just looks awful. The one person I would not want to be now is Sessions.”.
CNN
March 16, 2018
They describe a five-year investigation that peaked last week, when FBI agents raided his family home in rural Fredericksburg, Virginia. ... In his application for a warrant to search Weed's home, FBI Special Agent Steven K. Hall wrote that "the unauthorized disclosure of this information could reasonably beÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
March 15, 2018
Indianapolis police and FBI agents on Thursday made more than a dozen arrests and served 10 search warrants at various locations on the city's east side. ... Ed Wheele, FBI supervisory special agent, said that although the amount of drugs seized in Thursday's raids was relatively small, it still sends a clearÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
March 15, 2018
Noor Salman critical of FBI agent after testimony in Pulse massacre trial: 'He's lying' .... Salman's treatment at the hands of Fort Pierce police — and later, special agents with the FBI — is a key element in the case, as the government is relying on statements Salman made during questioning by the FBI inÃâà...
CBS DFW
March 14, 2018
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS 11 News all three package bombs that exploded in Austin in less than two weeks had shrapnel and some kind of motion triggered detonation component. “The only thing you can probably say with any assuredness, they're going toÃâà...
ticklethewire.com
March 9, 2018
A Baltimore FBI agent stabbed his estranged wife to death before ending his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police concluded following an investigation. David Raynor, a special agent for the Baltimore Field Office, was embroiled in a divorce and custody case with his estranged wife DonnaÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 9, 2018
Armed man allegedly tried to sneak into L.A. jail by impersonating FBI agent. Victoria Kim. By Victoria Kim. Mar 09, 2018 | 5:05 PM. Armed man allegedly tried to sneak into L.A. jail by impersonating FBI agent. Inmates sitting in the inmate reception center in the Twin Towers jail in 2006. A 28-year-old man was arrested thisÃâà...
WHAS 11.com
March 9, 2018
(WHAS11) - Agents with Louisville's FBI field office made several payments to employees of Best Buy's Geek Squad for several years after those employees had previously alerted federal investigators about finding evidence of child pornography on customers' computers, an agent testified in a JeffersonÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 9, 2018
AKRON, Ohio - An undercover FBI agent who testified Friday against a terrorism suspect on trial in Akron said he was driving behind a car in a city outside Dallas when two men got out of the car and opened fire in an Islamic State-inspired attack in May 2015. The agent, who testified under the pseudonymÃâà...
CNN
March 9, 2018
The agent wore a listening device for the meeting that included the informant and was monitored by the FBI. After that meeting, Rosquette allegedly told the informant that he approved of the hit man. He then allegedly tried to rationalize his decision to kill the neighbors. "Rage is rage," Rosquette allegedlyÃâà...
WDRB
March 9, 2018
(WDRB) – An FBI agent acknowledged in a court hearing in Louisville last fall that over a number of years, the agency paid Geek Squad employees at Best ... From time to time, our repair agents discover material that may be child pornography and we have a legal and moral obligation to turn that materialÃâà...
WTVD-TV
March 9, 2018
Federal agents have opened a criminal investigation into a white North Carolina police officer shown on body camera footage beating a black man accused of ... State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Patty McQuillan said in an email Wednesday that an FBI criminal investigation was launched into theÃâà...
Charlotte Observer
March 9, 2018
Hendricks' attorneys did not object to the agent's use of a disguise or pseudonym. But they did argue that the public should be allowed to witness the entirety of Hendricks' trial. Emptying most of the courtroom when the FBI agent testifies “would send the clear message (to the jury) that Hendricks isÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
March 9, 2018
A portrait of an estranged couple's final days is slowly emerging in the wake of Wednesday's apparent murder-suicide in Crownsville involving an FBI agent. Police say 54-year-old David Raynor, an FBI veteran of 22 years, stabbed his estranged wife, Donna Fisher, before ending his life with a self-inflictedÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 8, 2018
His work history has come under scrutiny, with headlines identifying Wolf as a former FBI agent, which he said he never claimed. (Erin Hooley ... Thomas O'Connor, president of the FBI agents union, said employees like Wolf are valuable workers who often do surveillance, but they're not FBI agents.
CapitalGazette.com
March 8, 2018
An FBI agent and his estranged wife were killed in Crownsville Wednesday morning in what Anne Arundel County police say was a murder-suicide on the day the two were expected back in divorce court. Officers responded to a report of a domestic assault in progress in the 500 block of Arundel BoulevardÃâà...
WYFF Greenville
March 7, 2018
The FBI returned Tuesday to a home where a man was arrested over weekend, following the discovery of two suspicious packages in Anderson County. Wesley Dallas Ayers, 27, of Travis Road, is charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, according to Lance Crick, first assistant U.S. attorney.
KSDK
March 4, 2018
LOUIS – A former FBI agent and St. Louis University Law School Graduate was named the Chief Investigator by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner Sunday. Tony Box, who has more than 20 years of global investigative experience, was named the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Chief Investigator.
ABC News
March 3, 2018
Wray arrived in the tribal capital in Window Rock, Ariz., on Friday, March 2 and spoke with Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye and other tribal and federal law enforcement officials, including FBI agents from New Mexico. FBI spokesman Frank Fisher says Wray's visit to the Navajo Nation was the firstÃâà...
WMBF
March 2, 2018
LUMBERTON, NC (WMBF) - The FBI continues its efforts to help Lumberton police find clues and answers in the deaths of three women. According to an FBI spokesperson, agents were in Lumberton around East Fifth Street, Eighth Street and Peachtree Street on Thursday. The agents were helping gainÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 2, 2018
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An undercover FBI agent will don a disguise and use a pseudonym in a partially-closed courtroom when testifying in a trial for a ... The Ohio man told FBI agents that Hendricks tested his religious knowledge and commitment to ISIS, including asking whether he was willing to die as aÃâà...
Newsweek
March 2, 2018
... was FBI special agent Mark Rossini. As Rossini told Newsweek in January 2015, he and another FBI agent discovered that the CIA knew that two of the future hijackers were already in the U.S. But the agency kept that information from the FBI, possibly in hopes of recruiting the terrorists as double agents.
Sports Illustrated
February 23, 2018
Former NFL cornerback Charles Tillman is an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation after graduating from the Bureau's academy, Bobby Clay of Sporting News reports. Tillman, who earned a criminal justice degree at University of Louisiana-Lafayette, played 13 seasons in the NFL before retiring inÃâà...
CNN
February 5, 2018
The former special agent's decision to leave the organization comes amid Republicans' increased scrutiny of the Justice Department and the FBI for their handling of the Russia investigation. "The only reason people will talk to us is if they trust us," Campbell told "New Day." "And what I'm afraid of is thatÃâà...
The Tennessean
December 31, 1999
Raymond Sanchez, 3, slaps hands with Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Cameron Beall while trying on a helmet and a protective vest during an Easter egg hunt hosted by the FBI and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital on Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Nashville Tenn. The children usedÃâà...
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